NDIS sleepovers, and how to claim the nights nobody sleeps

What counts as a sleepover

The NDIS Pricing Schedule 2026–27 defines a night-time sleepover as support on any day, including weekends and public holidays, that:

• starts before midnight and finishes after midnight,
• runs for a continuous period of 8 hours or more, and
• lets the worker sleep when they aren't providing support.

If the worker is expected to stay awake all night, it isn't a sleepover. It's an active overnight support, claimed at the time of day rates.

The item and the price

The unit is "each": one per sleepover. Remote and very remote limits are $436.51 and $467.69. For comparison, the 2025–26 national limit was $297.60. There's no separate public holiday sleepover price: the same price applies on any day.

Active time: the first 2 hours are included

The sleepover price includes up to 2 hours of active support across the whole sleepover. The schedule says that where more than 2 hours of active support is provided, the provider may claim the third and later hours:

• on a weekday: at the Saturday rate, not the night rate
• on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday: at that day's rate

For self-care, that's 01_013_0107_1_1 (Saturday, $103.54 an hour), 01_014_0107_1_1 (Sunday, $133.50) or 01_012_0107_1_1 (public holiday, $163.46).

Here's what's claimed on top of the sleepover for a weekday night, at 2026–27 national limits:

Two easy mistakes are claiming awake time after the first hour, and claiming it at the weekday night rate. Neither matches the current rule: the first 2 hours are included, and weekday hours after that use the Saturday rate.

Nights that run across two days

A Friday sleepover finishes on a Saturday, and a Saturday one finishes on a Sunday. The schedule doesn't say which day's rate applies to active time in a night like that. Its general rule for supports that cross days is that the higher rate applies to the whole support, and that's the approach we take. If you take a different view, check it with the NDIA and apply it consistently.

Keep a record of the awake time

Claims for active time beyond 2 hours depend on knowing when the worker was up and what they did. It's worth having workers record each period of active support with its start and end time, and having the office check it before the time is claimed.

How Fully Funded Shifts handles it

Workers log awake periods from the shift on their phone. Once the office approves them, the first 2 hours are included and any time past that is added as its own invoice line, at the Saturday rate on weekdays or that day's rate otherwise, rounded up to the next 5 minutes. The awake line never changes the rate of the active hours either side of the sleep period. Worker pay is worked out separately, under the award.

More about NDIS billing in Fully Funded Shifts

Sources

General information, not advice. Check the current NDIS pricing documents before you rely on it.

• NDIS Pricing Schedule 2026–27 (in force 24 September 2026): Part 4 Table 61, "Night-time Sleepover Support" (page 94), for the definition and the third-hour rule; Appendix 1 Table 1 for the items and prices.
• NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits 2025–26 v1.1: "Night-Time Sleepover supports", which says the item "includes up to two hours of active supports".
• NDIS Support Catalogue 2026–27: the same items and prices, from 1 July 2026.