could be contracted to mentor each person to achieve their own pathways. Good coaches and mentors will guide a person to the appropriate outcome success. Ronw Comment 8 10 Oct 2012, 4:02 PM To put in place a planning and assessment process that ensures people with an intellectual disability have real choice and control over their care and support it is imperative that their parents & other carers input is actively sort out to ensure that their needs are fully understood & met. Ricky Buchanan Comment 10 10 Oct 2012, 10:01 PM Aside from echoing what others have said, these are some observations: - For many years the public servant who's helped me do my state-level-funding plan each time it's come up (mostly every year until recently) has been the same person and this has REALLY helped. Having to go through my complex and unusual circumstances Every Single Time with a new person is exhausting and a huge waste of energy and resources for everybody concerned. I understand that people become unavailable and move to different jobs from time to time but continuity where possible is a huge help! kate3 Comment 12 11 Oct 2012, 1:50 PM The yoursay site says, 'People with disability, their families and carers need to be at the centre of an NDIS'. The planning process needs to consider the whole family and not just the person with disability and their parents/carers. Siblings will have the longest relationship of anyone with the PWD and can have