NDIS Basics
How long do you need to keep your NDIS records?
NDIS record keeping: 3 years for participants, 5 for nominees, 7 for providers, including plan managers. What it covers and what to keep now.
Forward Planning Plus
2 Nov 20268 min read
NDIS plan management articles and updates
Short, practical articles on invoices, budgets, switching and plan reviews. For full step-by-step guides, visit our guides library.
NDIS changes explained — what is changing between 2026 and 2028, and when.
Latest articles
Therapy and health
What therapy supports does the NDIS fund?
Which therapies the NDIS can fund, what it can't, who can deliver them, how therapy funding sits in your plan, and the 2026–27 price limits.
Forward Planning Plus
1 Nov 20269 min read
Home and living
How does NDIS short-term accommodation (respite) work now?
Who can get NDIS short-term accommodation, the 28-day guide, what it can't pay for (holidays, meals), and how STA is priced in 2026–27.
Forward Planning Plus
31 Oct 20269 min read
Plan Management
Can a plan manager pay unregistered NDIS providers?
Yes, with conditions. Which NDIS supports need a registered provider, how price limits apply to plan-managed funding, and what may change in 2027.
Forward Planning Plus
30 Oct 20268 min read
Your plan
What is a plan implementation meeting, and what should you ask in it?
Your NDIS plan is approved. What happens at a plan implementation meeting, who runs it, and which questions should you take? A checklist to share.
Forward Planning Plus
29 Oct 20269 min read
Plan changes / Life transitions
Going into hospital? How your NDIS plan and supports keep working
Going into hospital on the NDIS? Who to tell, what the NDIA can and can't fund while you're there, plan changes, and getting ready to go home.
Forward Planning Plus
28 Oct 20268 min read
Pricing
The NDIS pricing review closed on 1 November. What happens next?
Submissions to the NDIA's annual pricing review for 2027-28 prices closed on 1 November 2026. What it covered and what the NDIA says happens next.
Forward Planning Plus
27 Oct 20266 min read
Rights and safeguards
The NDIS Commission is looking into seclusion. How can you share your experience?
The NDIS Commission's seclusion inquiry wants to hear from participants and families. Who can take part, how to send it, and NDIS news this week.
Forward Planning Plus
26 Oct 20268 min read
NDIS changes
Will I lose my support coordinator? What the 2028 NDIS support coordination changes mean
From 1 July 2028, support coordination is set to move out of NDIS plans into a new NDIA-funded service. What's proposed and what to do now.
Forward Planning Plus
23 Oct 2026Quick update