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NDIS Behaviour Support Funding Recommendation Report
What is a Behaviour Support Funding Recommendation Report?
Purpose: to identify whether challenging behaviours of concern or restrictive practices are present, and whether specialist behaviour support is needed.
What are they used for?
Behaviour as communication
Behaviour is treated as communication and as a response to the environment. The report describes what is happening and what is likely contributing to it.
What the report covers
A rounded picture of the person and their situation is built from several areas of information.
Letters and information from treating doctors and specialists.
Diagnoses, day-to-day presentation, medications and their purpose.
How the person expresses themselves and how communication changes when distressed.
How the person is best supported to make choices.
Sensitivities, sensory-seeking behaviours and what helps.
Formal and informal supports, and how the people providing them are managing.
What each behaviour looks like, how often it occurs, how long it lasts and how intense it is.
Whether any restrictive practices are currently in use and by whom.
Restrictive practices and why they matter
A restrictive practice is anything that limits a person’s rights or freedom of movement. Examples include locking away medication or food, physically blocking or holding someone, restricting access to areas or items, or medication used to manage behaviour rather than treat a diagnosed condition.
Families often use these strategies for safety, without knowing they are classified this way.
If restrictive practices are identified, Positive Behaviour Support funding is recommended. Part of the practitioner’s role is to work with the care team to reduce the use of restrictive practices over time and improve the person’s overall quality of life. That work cannot happen without funded behaviour support in place.
Positive Behaviour Support funding can also be recommended where no restrictive practices are present. Behaviours of risk alone can be sufficient reason.
What the report recommends
Recommendations may include:
- Specialist behaviour support to complete assessment, develop behaviour support plans and train families and support workers
- Ongoing behaviour support, including coaching, data monitoring, progress reporting and stakeholder meetings
- Complementary supports where they may reduce behaviours of concern, including occupational therapy, speech pathology, support work and support coordination
*Testing times may vary depending on client’s needs
How to fund the report through your NDIS plan
There are two funding routes described in the source document.
Referral documents
Letters and information from treating doctors and specialists.
Restrictive practices
Whether any restrictive practices are currently in use and by whom.
There are two funding routes described in the source document.
What happens after the report?
1
Funding Recommendation Report
2
Functional Behavioural Assessment
If PBS is recommended and funded, assess why behaviours are occurring.
3
Positive Behaviour Support Plan
Use the assessment findings to develop practical, evidence-informed support strategies.
Greater Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast.
Telehealth available.
Talk to the Hively Health team about a Functional Capacity Assessment for an NDIS access request, plan review or a specific support need. We service wider Brisbane, with assessment available in clinic at East Brisbane, in the home or community, and by telehealth.
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To book an initial consultation or discuss whether PBS is right for you or your participant, call 1300 11 4769 or get in touch online.
