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Flexible support packages

All families need support in caring for their child and in meeting their individual needs. Early Childhood Intervention Services (ECIS) provide a variety of specialist supports to families with children with a disability or developmental delay, from birth until school entry, who require a range of additional services and supports not usually available through community services.

ECIS Flexible Support Packages are specifically designed to provide time-limited, individualised support to address a specific need(s) unable to be fully met by ECIS. Families with children eligible for ECIS may apply for an ECIS Flexible Support Package.

ECIS Flexible Support Packages are provided using a family-centered approach, which recognises that families have the skills, strength and ability to identify their own needs and work towards bringing positive change into their lives.

In partnership with service providers, ECIS Flexible Support Packages aim to help families access supports and services that:

  • Promote optimal child development;
  • Support the needs of children with a disability or developmental delay, and
  • Ease some of the additional pressures on parents. 

For copies of the related ECIS Flexible Support Package documentation, see:

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