The Victorian rules, in two sentences. Victorian workers apply for their NDIS Worker Screening Check through Service Victoria, it's assessed by the state's NDIS Worker Screening Unit and lasts five years, and it doesn't replace a Working with Children Check; the Victorian Disability Worker Commission regulates the disability workforce statewide. Our Melbourne NDIS provider page covers both in more depth, and our Albury-Wodonga page sets out how the New South Wales process compares.
A small district, growing quickly. The NDIA's Mallee district had 3,655 participants at 30 June 2026, about a quarter of Barwon's total. Mildura Rural City accounted for 2,472 of them, roughly two in three, up from 1,551 in June 2022, a rise of about 59%. Swan Hill grew from 501 to 741 over the same four years. For a provider, that growth is a reason to keep a capacity note on the home page and update it as your roster fills.
Who families talk to. Intereach is the NDIA's partner for both local area coordination and the early childhood approach across the Mallee, and it covers the Loddon, Goulburn and Murrumbidgee districts too. Across the river it's different. Wentworth Shire is counted in the NDIA's Far West district of New South Wales, alongside Broken Hill with its 692 participants, and Far West isn't one of Intereach's districts, so a family in Gol Gol may be referred to you by a different organisation from a family in Irymple. Broken Hill also keeps South Australian time, while Wentworth Shire runs on eastern time like Mildura.
Almost everything through plan managers. Beyond the 89.1% plan-managed, 8.1% of Mallee plans were fully self-managed, 1.8% partly self-managed and just 1.0% NDIA-managed, against 20.8% fully self-managed and 6.0% NDIA-managed nationally. On your site, that means invoicing details matter more than a long explanation of the funding types, and an unregistered provider can, under the current rules, offer most supports to the great majority of participants in Sunraysia.
An Adelaide team, by phone and email. Mildura is 399 kilometres from Adelaide and 545 from Melbourne, but we don't travel to clients; everything happens by phone and email, and Mildura's clocks run half an hour ahead of ours. None of our clients is in Mildura. Trades will find the town's building, water and flood detail on our Mildura tradies page.