Everyday living support
A hand with the parts of the day that take the most work. Cooking, cleaning, medication, appointments, budgeting, and the paperwork that piles up. As much or as little as a person wants.
Supported Independent Living
What is Supported Independent Living?
Supported Independent Living, most people just call it SIL, is NDIS funding for help with the everyday parts of living in your own home. It pays for support workers to be there through the day and, where a person needs it, overnight. Here is what SIL covers in plain terms, who it is for, and how it sits inside an NDIS plan.
The plain version
What SIL actually is
SIL is the support that makes living in a shared home work day to day. A person moves into a house with one or two others, and support workers are rostered on so the routine holds. Meals get made, medication is right, the morning starts on time, and someone is there in the evening.
The funding pays for the support hours, not the rent or the groceries. A person still pays their own board and everyday costs the way any tenant does. What SIL adds is the staffing around them, matched to how much help they actually need, from a few hours a day through to support that is there around the clock.
It is meant to be steady. The point is not to do things for a person. It is to have the right help beside them so more of daily life becomes theirs to run.
What you get
What is included in SIL
A home you actually share
SIL happens in a real house with one or two housemates, not a facility. People are matched on how they like to live, so the home feels settled rather than allocated.
The same faces
A consistent team, rostered so a person sees people they know rather than a new worker every shift. Trust is built on turning up, and the roster is built to protect that.
Getting out and about
Support to keep up the things that matter beyond the front door. Work, study, family, appointments, the local shops, and whatever a person wants their week to include.
Who it is for
Who Supported Independent Living is for
SIL is for adults whose NDIS plan funds daily support to live in their own home. It suits people who want their own place and a real say in it, and who need reliable help beside them to make that work. It is not about level of ability. It is about the amount of everyday support a person needs to live well.
- Adults with mental health or psychosocial support needs who do better with steady daily support
- People with neurological support needs who rely on consistency to keep routines in place
- Someone moving out of the family home for the first time
- A person leaving hospital or a facility who needs support to settle back into a home
- People whose current arrangement keeps breaking down because the staff keep changing
- Anyone whose plan funds daily support and who wants a home of their own, not a placement
SIL and your NDIS plan
How SIL works within an NDIS plan
SIL is funded through the Core Supports budget of an NDIS plan, under Assistance with Daily Life. It is approved on how much support a person needs across a week, so the funding follows the actual need. Here is roughly how it comes together.
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The support need is assessed
The NDIA or a support coordinator works out how many hours of daily support a person needs, often with input from allied health. This becomes a roster of support, sometimes shared across housemates.
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It goes into the plan
SIL funding is written into the Core Supports budget. The plan sets the level of support, from lower needs through to overnight or around-the-clock care, and the funding is set to match.
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The support starts at home
Once a provider is in place, support workers are rostered to the home. The plan is reviewed over time, and if the need changes the funding can be revisited at a plan review.
The difference here
How The CARE Group does SIL
Plenty of providers can put staff in a house. What is harder, and what we build for, is keeping them there. The CARE Group runs Supported Independent Living in Coffs Harbour, with a home at Emerald Beach on a tree-lined property, and we are opening more in Western Sydney.
We stay. That is the whole idea. When the same team turns up morning after morning, the routine starts to hold on its own, and a person can trust that tomorrow will look like today. That steadiness is the work, not a nice extra on top of it.
What stability looks like here
- The same faces every morning and the same calm every evening
- A real home on a settled property, not a placement that could move
- Housemates matched so the home works for everyone living in it
- A team that stays long enough for trust to become something you can count on
- Support for mental health, psychosocial and neurological support needs, run with a steady hand
In one line
Care is not a promise but a fact you can see for yourself. A home where someone stayed long enough for trust to become something the body believes.
The CARE Group & Co.
Wondering if SIL is the right fit?
Tell us a little about the person and where things are up to. We will talk it through honestly and point you the right way, even if that is not us. You can also see which homes have a room open right now.