Assisting your Decision-Making regarding Home Care Package Expenditure and Excluded Items
Assisting your Decision-Making regarding Home Care Package Expenditure and Excluded Items

Workshop overview
Interpreting legislation can be challenging, as guidelines require providers to make informed decisions for a person-centred approach to care provision of older people. While the rules have not changed, the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission is strengthening its focus on grey areas of expenditure.
This interactive workshop explores the Inclusions & Exclusions Framework, unpacks examples across the domains, and offers a question and answer (Q&A) session addressing specific questions.
This workshop is limited to 25 participants, to support greater exploration and discussion around inclusions & exclusions.
Who should attend?
Home care managers, case managers and consumers.
The outcomes are:
- understand the intent of the Home Care Package program and the Quality of Care principles
- identify the types of care and support services that should be included in a care plan
- learn why needs assessments and care goals are important to preparing a home care budget
- recognise the rules that prohibit excluded items from being purchased and why
- discover a tool that can assist you to assess and validate purchase decisions
- develop strategies that will assist your communications with clients and carers and avoid complaints.
Date: TBC
Time: TBC
Ageing Australia member price
1–2 people: $289 incl. GST each
3–10 people: $260 incl. GST each
Additional member discounts may apply for groups of 11 and greater.
Non member price
$462 incl. GST each
Note – Registration is one ticket per participant and all participants are required to access training on individual devices.
Who is facilitating?

Tim Moore
Tim Moore is a specialist in home care. He has spent over four years in home care management and previously worked within the NDIS. Tim’s passion lies in empowering providers to assist clients to achieve greater independence and improve their quality of life. He holds a degree in social science (sociology & psychology) with a business diploma.
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It is a condition of registration that participants pay full payment at the time of booking via credit card or by invoicing by prior arrangement. All payments must be finalised prior to commencement. Registrants who have outstanding payments will not be able to participate. Upon registration, a tax invoice will be emailed to the person making the booking.
Aligns to the following Final draft strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards (February 2025)
- Standard 1 - The individual
- 1.3 Choice, independence and quality of life
- 1.3 Choice, independence and quality of life
- Standard 3 - Care and services
- 3.2 Delivery of funded aged care services
- 3.2 Delivery of funded aged care services
- Standard 4 - The environment