About this guide

Self-Managed Guide is a plain-English resource for families who direct their own NDIS support, whether you self-manage your funding or use a plan manager. It is written for real households, not for agencies.

Everything here is general information, written to help you make your own decisions with more confidence. It is not financial, legal or NDIS advice, and for anything specific to your situation the NDIS (ndis.gov.au) and your planner are the authorities.

Our one rule

Sparks builds Scribe and Flow. When one of our own tools is the right answer, we say so, and why.

Plenty of “neutral” guides quietly recommend a product the publisher owns without telling you. We do the opposite: when a Sparks tool is genuinely the right fit for something, we name it and explain why, and we tell you it is ours. When it is not the right fit, we say that too. Knowing who is behind a recommendation is what lets you weigh it properly.

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