| Choice and control | A participant has the right to make their own decisions about what is important to them and to decide how they would like to receive their supports and who from.[52] |
| Dignity of risk | Supporting people to take informed risks to improve the quality of their lives. This means rather than seeking to eliminate all risk – which can be highly restrictive and out of proportion to the level of risk involved – the NDIS should work with participants to define acceptable risk levels to achieve their goals.[53] |
| Formal safeguards | Rules and the actions that are taken by organisations with formal responsibility for the safety of people with disability. |
| Knowledge capital | A person’s skills and ability to use knowledge for actions (e.g. access to information).[54] |
| Material capital | Resources and material goods (e.g. income, community resources) in a person’s life.[55] |
| Natural safeguards | Actions and features that are part of people’s day-to-day lives and support them to manage their safety (also called informal safeguards). |
| Participant | A person who meets the NDIS access requirements.[56] |
| Person with disability | A person who has any or all of the following: impairments, activity limitations (difficulties in carrying out usual age-appropriate activities), and participation restrictions (problems a person may have taking part in community, social and family life).[57] |
| Participant capital | A way of conceptualising the personal resources available to a participant to support them to advocate for their rights, adapted from Williams’ Model of Citizenhood Support. |
| Personal capital | A person’s personal resources, strength and resilience to represent themselves (e.g. ability to self-advocate).[58] |
| Safeguards | Actions designed to protect the rights of people to be safe from the risk of harm, abuse and neglect, while maximising the choice and control they have over their lives.[59] |
| Safety | Safety typically means being free from injury or danger.[60] It does not matter if the injury of danger is intentional (on purpose) or unintentional (by accident). |
| Social capital | A person’s relationships and connections (e.g. family, friends, community).[61] |
