Aged Care Quality Standards
Standard 6 - Food and nutrition
ACQS25-6.1 Partnering with individuals on a quality food and drinks service
Clause and reference 15-35(1) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-6.1
The requirement
The provider partners with the people it serves on a food and drinks service that is of good quality and offers appetising variety and a dining experience people enjoy.
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
- Food committee or resident meeting minutes
- Satisfaction surveys and improvement actions
- Food service monitoring against intake and health outcomes
What assessors commonly find
- Menu set centrally without resident input
- Satisfaction feedback not acted on
What evidence do I need?
For ACQS25-6.1 Partnering with individuals on a quality food and drinks service, the evidence to bring is: Food committee or resident meeting minutes; Satisfaction surveys and improvement actions. It sits under Standard 6 - Food and nutrition and the instrument's own clause is 15-35(1). Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me food committee or resident meeting minutes, 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