Aged Care Quality Standards
Standard 6 - Food and nutrition
ACQS25-6.4 Support to eat and drink
Clause and reference 15-35(4) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-6.4
The requirement
The provider supports each person to eat and to drink.
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
- Mealtime staffing records
- Identification of individuals needing assistance
- Observation of assisted meals at the individual's pace
What assessors commonly find
- Too few workers at mealtimes
- Meals removed uneaten without prompting
What evidence do I need?
For ACQS25-6.4 Support to eat and drink, the evidence to bring is: Mealtime staffing records; Identification of individuals needing assistance. It sits under Standard 6 - Food and nutrition and the instrument's own clause is 15-35(4). Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me mealtime staffing records, 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