State rules, summarised. Bendigo providers work under the same Victorian arrangements as Melbourne ones: NDIS Worker Screening Checks are applied for through Service Victoria and assessed by the state's NDIS Worker Screening Unit, clearances last five years and don't stand in for a Working with Children Check, and the Victorian Disability Worker Commission oversees the disability workforce. The detail, with links to each regulator, is on our Melbourne NDIS provider page.
A district from the Murray to the Macedon Ranges. The NDIA's Loddon service district had 11,134 participants at 30 June 2026. Greater Bendigo was home to 6,319, up from 4,243 four years earlier, and the rest were spread across Macedon Ranges (1,844), Campaspe (1,416), Mount Alexander (755), Central Goldfields (587) and Loddon Shire (213). Growth was fastest at the southern end: Macedon Ranges and Mount Alexander both rose by around 64%, against about 49% in Greater Bendigo.
Intereach on both sides of the river. Intereach delivers local area coordination and the NDIS early childhood approach across the Loddon district, for children younger than 6 with developmental concerns and younger than 9 with a disability, as well as across the Mallee, Goulburn and the Murrumbidgee in New South Wales. Because Murray River Council, which includes Moama, falls in the NDIA's Murrumbidgee district, families in Echuca and Moama deal with the same partner even though they live in different states. NSW and Victorian children's checks are still separate, and our Albury-Wodonga NDIS page shows how a site can set out a border area.
How participants pay. Of the 11,134 Loddon plans in June 2026, 7,500 were plan-managed (67.4%), 2,501 fully self-managed (22.5%), 641 partly self-managed (5.8%) and 462 NDIA-managed (4.1%). That self-managed share is higher than in Barwon (15.5%), the Central Highlands (18.1%) or the Mallee (8.1%), and it's the reason we'd put payment terms and a plain explanation of your service agreement on a Bendigo provider's site rather than leaving them for the first phone call.
Working with an Adelaide team. We're based in Adelaide and work with Bendigo providers by phone and email, half an hour behind you on the clock. None of our clients is in Bendigo, and the one Victorian client in our portfolio is in Melbourne. You send your supports, towns, terms and photos; we build a draft you can check on your phone; you pay once you approve it.