What is SIL?

Who SIL is for

SIL suits participants with higher support needs who need a significant amount of help throughout the day, 7 days a week, including overnight. A participant can receive SIL living with other participants, with people who are not participants, or on their own. It is not for people who only need a few hours of support a day or week, or who direct, plan and roster their own support workers.

What SIL includes and excludes

SIL can include help with personal care, building skills such as cooking and cleaning, implementing behaviour support plans, supervision and personal safety, giving medication, attending medical appointments and community access that is not routine.

It does not cover day-to-day living costs such as groceries, rent or board, utilities or vehicle costs.

How the NDIA works out SIL funding

The NDIA uses assessments, reports and discussions with the participant to work out:

• the hours of support needed at home in an ordinary week
• the ratio of support, meaning how many workers support how many participants
• the intensity: standard or high intensity
• overnight support: sleepover support if up to 2 hours of awake support is needed, or active overnight support if more than 2 hours is regularly needed
• irregular support for unplanned events, generally an initial maximum of 10 days a year for standard needs and 15 days for high intensity needs.

It then uses the NDIS pricing schedule to set the funding, which includes an average of 12 public holidays a year.

Registration and standards from 1 July 2026

• SIL must be managed and delivered by a provider registered with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, under the new registration group 0138 Assistance with supported independent living.
• Registered SIL providers must comply with the core module and the new SIL supplementary module of the NDIS Practice Standards, which took effect on 1 July 2026.
• Providers delivering SIL before 1 July 2026 who applied for registration can keep delivering under the transition pathway.
• The provider must make a service agreement with the participant and give them a tenancy agreement.

How Rostery helps

Rostery builds a household roster from recurring service templates, checks each participant's funding before a shift is confirmed, and blocks rostering a worker whose screening or qualifications have lapsed.