Aged Care Quality Standards
ACQS25-2.6 Current policies and procedures that workers follow
Clause and reference 15-15(6) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-2.6
The requirement
The provider keeps its policies and procedures current as guidance for how aged care workers do their roles, and requires the workers to follow them.
Our wording of the requirement: our statement of what the clause asks, not the instrument verbatim. Source: Aged Care Quality Standards on the compliance desk.
The evidence to bring
- Policy register with review dates
- Worker acknowledgement and training on policies
- Audits of adherence to procedures
What assessors commonly find
- Policies overdue for review
- Workers unable to find or explain key procedures
What evidence do I need?
For ACQS25-2.6 Current policies and procedures that workers follow, the evidence to bring is: Policy register with review dates; Worker acknowledgement and training on policies. It sits under Standard 2 - The organisation and the instrument's own clause is 15-15(6). Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me policy register with review dates, and tell me who owns it and when it was last reviewed.
That is the question a quality assessor opens with for this requirement. Have the record on the desk and the date it was last reviewed to hand.
Read your own evidence against this clause
Paste your policy or evidence pack and the reading marks, line by line, whether a phrase from this requirement appears and quotes your own words when it does. It is a reading of your text, not a compliance result; a quality assessor decides whether a requirement is met. Read your pack, free See the paid reading