NDIS Home & Living Report

Home & Living reports that a delegate can act on without translation

Build a delegate-ready NDIS Home and Living report: SDA, SIL, ILO, STA/MTA, mainstream and group-home options weighed and justified against the reasonable-and-necessary criteria. You record the housing decisions and support parameters; Capacoty writes the plain-English clinical justification, grounded in your FCA.

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Capacoty's HAL housing-recommendations screen: SDA, SIL, ILO and other accommodation types each marked applicable or not with a clinical justification

The report

What is an NDIS Home & Living report?

A Home & Living Report is the occupational-therapy document that supports an NDIS participant's request for a particular home-and-living arrangement.

It sets out which accommodation types and formal supports are recommended: Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA), Supported Independent Living (SIL), an Individual Living Option (ILO), or a less-intensive option, names the clinical drivers, and argues each against the NDIS reasonable-and-necessary criteria and the Home and Living Operational Guideline. Capacoty's HAL tool turns your structured housing decisions and an uploaded or linked Functional Capacity Assessment into a finished, editable report written for an NDIA delegate reviewer rather than a clinician.

You reach for a HAL report when a participant's current housing no longer meets their disability-related needs and you're recommending a change of accommodation or support model: moving into SDA, establishing or adjusting a SIL arrangement and its staffing ratio, designing an ILO, or arguing a transitional STA/MTA placement. It's the report you write when a delegate or Home and Living panel needs the clinical case for why one living arrangement is reasonable and necessary and the alternatives are not. The output is an editable Word (.docx) document you finish and sign; nothing is auto-submitted.

A finished Capacoty Home and Living report ready to download as an editable Word document

Built for the HAL

Every option weighed, in one report

A delegate wants to see that you considered the alternatives, not just the arrangement you landed on. Capacoty carries the whole Home and Living structure (every accommodation type, every formal support, the SDA and SIL and ILO eligibility logic) so a pile of housing decisions and your FCA become a structured, justified draft in minutes.

Accommodation and formal-support options weighed in every report

SDA eligibility criteria worked through with a clinical verdict

s.34 reasonable-and-necessary tests applied to SIL

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Word cap on the summary so it stays delegate-readable

How Capacoty writes your HAL

Work the way you already do, one report at a time. Ground it in the FCA, record the housing decisions, add your reasoning, and Capacoty drafts the justification. You stay the author at every step.

Link or upload the FCA

Pick an existing FCA v2 draft as the evidence source (decrypted on your device) or upload an FCA document for the tool to parse; the participant's functional findings anchor every recommendation.

Record the housing decisions

Tick the recommended accommodation types and formal supports, choose the SDA design category, set the SIL ratio and active/passive/overnight hours, and select the ILO level and tenancy model, by hand or by dictating to chat, which the extractor maps into the structured enum fields.

Add your clinical reasoning

Drop per-option notes, ruled-out rationale for options you're not recommending, and any override reasoning where an eligibility gate isn't met. You stay in control of every value.

Generate, review & export

Capacoty writes the plain-English justification for every ticked option, the eligibility-criteria tables and the three-paragraph summary, anchored to the FCA, the OG and the reasonable-and-necessary criteria. Edit inline, then download a .docx in your branding.

Eligibility logic

Argue every option. Flag every gate.

The report justifies SDA, STA, MTA, mainstream, public/community housing, SRF and group homes plus SIL, ILO, in-home and community supports, so the delegate sees the alternatives were weighed and ruled out for this participant. Built-in checks flag when SIL's >8 active-hours-per-day and 24/7 gate, or ILO's 6-hour, overnight, 24-hour-rostered and restrictive-practice gates, are not met, and prompt for an explicit OT override rationale the report then addresses head-on.

Eleven accommodation and formal-support options argued per report
SIL and ILO eligibility-gate checks against the Operational Guidelines
Override rationale captured and addressed, not glossed over

Capacoty checking SIL and ILO eligibility gates inside a Home and Living report, flagging an unmet active-hours threshold

Your branding

Editable .docx. Your logo and colours.

The report is delivered as a fully editable Word (.docx) document with your logo and chosen colour theme applied, so you finish, sign and submit it as your own clinical document. Unticked accommodation and support options and their tables are stripped automatically, so you don't delete rows by hand. An audience-and-voice rule keeps the housing fields in plain-English functional language and strips em dashes and stock phrases.

Editable Word .docx in your own logo and colour theme
Unticked options and unused tables removed for you
Plain-English delegate voice, no assessment scores in housing fields

What's inside a Capacoty HAL

Every section a delegate expects, in the order they expect it, drafted from your data and ready to edit.

Accommodation summary

A 60–80 word opening that names the recommended accommodation type(s) and formal-support arrangement(s), the primary clinical reason each is required, and the consequence if appropriate housing is not secured.

Housing recommendations: accommodation types

A per-type table with an applicable/not-applicable verdict and a tailored why/why-not justification for SDA, STA, MTA, mainstream housing, public/community housing, SRF and group homes.

Formal living supports

A per-support table justifying SIL, ILO, in-home (daily living) supports and community-participation supports for this participant, or explaining why each is not appropriate.

General housing recommendations

Synthesised fields covering recommended accommodation type, number of co-residents, assistive-technology infrastructure, accessibility features and participant-specific environmental risks.

SDA design category

When SDA is recommended, names one NDIA design category (Improved Liveability, Fully Accessible, Robust or High Physical Support) and the participant-specific clinical reason it suits.

SDA eligibility criteria

A seven-criterion table marking each SDA eligibility criterion Yes/No/Partial with a one-to-two-sentence clinical basis tied to the participant's functional presentation.

Supported Independent Living (SIL): reasonable and necessary

Addresses each of the six s.34 NDIS Act reasonable-and-necessary criteria for the SIL arrangement, with staffing ratio and active/passive/overnight hour reasoning.

Individual Living Options (ILO) eligibility

Addresses the five ILO eligibility criteria, the indicative Stage 2 funding level and the host/housemates tenancy structure.

Summary statement

A three-paragraph synthesis (max 240 words): the participant's functional profile and housing needs, the recommended arrangement and why, and the risks plus clinical basis if appropriate housing is not secured.

Why OTs choose Capacoty for HALsHAL

This isn't generic AI with an OT label. Every behaviour below is purpose-built for the Home & Living report, and shipped.

Every option argued, not just the chosen one

The report justifies SDA, STA, MTA, mainstream, public/community housing, SRF and group homes plus SIL, ILO, in-home and community supports, so the delegate sees that alternatives were weighed and ruled out for this participant.

Enum-bound SIL and ILO parameters

Staffing ratio (1:1 / 1:2 / 1:3 / 1:4+), intensity, active/passive/overnight hour splits, ILO Stage 2 level and host/housemate model are captured as fixed values and preserved verbatim through to the report: no loose paraphrasing of the numbers a reviewer checks.

Built-in SIL and ILO eligibility-gate checks

The tool flags when SIL's >8 active-hours-per-day and 24/7 gate, or ILO's 6-hour, overnight, 24-hour-rostered and restrictive-practice gates, are not met, and prompts for an explicit OT override rationale the report then addresses head-on.

SDA design-category and eligibility tables

When SDA is recommended the report names exactly one NDIA design category and works through all seven SDA eligibility criteria with a Yes/No/Partial verdict and participant-specific reasoning.

Reasonable & necessary, baked in

SIL is argued criterion-by-criterion against the six s.34 NDIS Act tests, and every major block is anchored to a named Home and Living Operational Guideline principle, including value for money against less-intrusive alternatives.

Writes for the delegate, not the clinic

An audience-and-voice rule forces plain-English functional anchoring ("cannot prepare meals unsupervised"), bans assessment scores and tool names from the housing fields, and strips em dashes and stock phrases.

Grounded in your FCA, with no fabrication

The FCA-source picker pulls findings straight from your own FCA v2 draft (or an upload), and a no-fabrication rule means every specific claim must be traceable to that evidence base.

End-to-end encrypted drafts

Every draft is AES-256 encrypted on your device before it leaves the browser (Capacoty stores only ciphertext it can't read, the participant's name is encrypted at rest) and your data is never used to train AI.

Grounded in evidence

Anchored to your FCA and NDIS policy

The HAL doesn't re-assess; it builds on the evidence you already have. It links to the participant's Functional Capacity Assessment and reasons against the named NDIS policy anchors a delegate checks against.

Functional Capacity AssessmentHome and Living Operational Guidelines.34 NDIS Act 2013SIL Operational GuidelineILO Operational GuidelineSDA Pricing Arrangements+ more

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Built to keep you compliant

Every HAL is grounded in the standards you're accountable to.

NDIS

NDIS Practice Standards

HALs are structured to the NDIS Practice Standards and the Home and Living Operational Guideline: the right sections, evidence and reasonable-and-necessary justification a delegate expects, every time.

AHPRA

You stay the author

Capacoty drafts; you review, edit and sign off, so every report meets your professional obligations. No autonomous clinical decisions, ever.

AUS PRIVACY

End-to-end encrypted

Every draft is AES-256 encrypted on your device before it leaves the browser, then stored on Australian servers. Your data is never used to train AI, compliant with the Australian Privacy Act 1988 and all 13 APPs.

Home & Living report FAQ

It's the occupational therapy report that supports a participant's request for a particular home-and-living arrangement: SDA, SIL, an ILO, or a less-intensive option. It names which accommodation types and formal supports are recommended, the clinical drivers, and the case for each against the reasonable-and-necessary criteria and the Home and Living Operational Guideline. Capacoty drafts it for an NDIA delegate to read without translation.

Yes. It justifies SDA (with a named design category and all seven eligibility criteria), SIL (the staffing ratio, intensity and active/passive/overnight hours, argued against the six reasonable-and-necessary criteria) and ILO (eligibility, indicative Stage 2 funding level and host/housemate tenancy structure), plus STA, MTA, mainstream, public/community housing, SRF, group homes and in-home and community supports.

The report is designed to be grounded in an FCA. You can link an existing Capacoty FCA v2 draft via the built-in FCA-source picker (decrypted on your device) or upload an FCA document for the tool to parse. Every specific claim in the report must be traceable to that evidence, so the FCA is the anchor for the housing recommendations.

Yes. It flags when SIL's more-than-8-active-hours-per-day and 24/7 requirement, or ILO's 6-hour, frequent-overnight, 24-hour-rostered and restrictive-practice checks, are not met against the Operational Guidelines, and asks for an explicit OT override rationale that the report then addresses rather than glossing over.

Yes. You can dictate or type into chat, for example "recommend SDA, high physical support, SIL 1:3 active overnight", and the extractor maps it into the structured accommodation, SDA-design, SIL and ILO fields. You stay in control of the final values; the FCA source is always set by the explicit picker, never inferred from dictation.

Yes. You export a fully editable Word .docx in your own logo and colours. Unticked accommodation and support options and their tables are removed automatically, so you don't have to delete rows by hand.

Drafts are end-to-end encrypted on your device before they leave the browser, the participant's name is encrypted at rest, and there's no AI training on your data.

The HAL report tool is adult-focused: it runs on the Home and Living adult template and the eligibility logic assumes an adult participant (for example the ILO over-18 criterion and SIL's 18+ gate).

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Capacoty drafts every report an OT writes across NDIS and aged care, each purpose-built, not retrofitted.

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Start a free trial (two reports, no card) and see a delegate-ready Home and Living report come together from your FCA and your housing decisions. You stay the author, start to finish.

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