What only registered providers can do
Registration is mandatory for a defined set of supports and participant types.
- Support NDIA managed participants, roughly a quarter of the market and often the least contested
- Deliver specialist disability accommodation
- Provide behaviour support and use regulated restrictive practices
- Deliver certain high risk supports where the Commission requires certification
What unregistered providers can still do
Unregistered providers can support plan managed and self managed participants for most everyday supports, including community participation, domestic assistance, transport and many therapeutic supports where the practitioner holds the relevant qualification.
You remain bound by the NDIS Code of Conduct whether registered or not. Unregistered does not mean unregulated.
The honest trade off
Registration costs money and administrative effort, and it opens the widest market, supports referrals from support coordinators, and makes you credible to plan managers.
Staying unregistered is faster and cheaper to start, and it caps who can engage you. Most providers who intend to employ staff register within their first year, usually after losing referrals they could not accept.
How to decide in one sitting
Answer three questions honestly.
- Do you want NDIA managed participants, now or within twelve months?
- Will you employ workers rather than contract yourself out?
- Do your intended supports appear on the mandatory registration list?
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We prepare the documents, the self assessment and the audit evidence, then sit with you through the audit itself. Book a call and we will tell you honestly what your pathway looks like.