Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2013L01063:body:0:p11
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2013L01063
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 27547–30624

Higher education and vocational education and training

    7.15 The NDIS will be responsible for supports that a student requires which are associated with the functional impact of the student's disability on their activities of daily living (that is, those not primarily relating to education or training attainment), such as personal care and support, transport to and from the education or training facility and specialist supports for transition from education or training to employment that are required because of the person's disability.

    7.16 The NDIS will not be responsible for the learning and support needs of students that primarily relate to their education and training attainment (including teaching, learning assistance and aids, building modifications, transport between education or training activities and general education to employment transition supports).

Employment

    7.17 The NDIS will be responsible for:

(a) supports related to daily living that a person would require irrespective of whether they are working or looking for work (including personal care and support and transport to and from work); and

(b) frequent and ongoing supports that assist a person with disability to take part in work where the person has work capacity and is unlikely to be able to find or retain work in the open market, including with the assistance of employment services; and

(c) individualised assistance to support a person with disability to transition into employment, where these support needs are additional to the needs of all Australians and specifically required as a result of a person's functional impairment, eg training on workplace relationships, communication skills, dress, punctuality and attendance, and travelling to and from work.

    7.18 The NDIS will not be responsible for:

(a) work-specific support related to recruitment processes, work arrangements or the working environment, including workplace modifications, work-specific aids and equipment, transport within work activities and work-specific support required in order to comply with laws dealing with discrimination on the basis of disability; or

(b) the funding or provision of employment services and programs, including both disability-targeted and open employment services, to provide advice and support to:

(i) people with disability to prepare for, find and maintain jobs; or

(ii) employers to encourage and assist them to hire and be inclusive of people with disability in the workplace (ie support, training and resources, funding assistance to help employers make reasonable adjustments, and incentives for hiring people with disability, eg wage subsidies).

Housing and community infrastructure

    7.19 The NDIS will be responsible for:

(a) supports to assist a person with disability to live independently in the community, including by building their capacity to maintain a tenancy, and support for appropriate behaviour management; and

(b) home modifications for accessibility for a person in private dwellings; and

(c) home modifications for