Training and Planning

Services may be eligible for the Flexible Support Funding as a contribution towards engaging relief staff while carers attend specialist training or planning in relation to including a child or children with ongoing high support needs.

The limits on ISS support for training or planning purposes are that:

• there is an annual limit of 15 hours for each approved child, which includes a maximum of 5 hours for each approved child for planning purposes;
• the training must relate specifically to the inclusion of the identified child or children with ongoing high support needs;
• the training must assist the service to build its capacity to include a child or children with ongoing high support needs;
• the planning must relate specifically to the inclusion of a child or children with ongoing high support needs, and cannot be used for weekly programming purposes.