NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: governance and operational management
core-16a.1 Emergency and disaster: continuity of critical supports before, during and after
Clause and reference core-16a.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Measures are in place so supports that are critical to each participant's safety, health and wellbeing continue before, during and after an emergency or disaster.
Our wording of the requirement: our statement of what the clause asks, not the instrument verbatim. Source: NDIS Practice Standards on the compliance desk.
The evidence to bring
- Register of participants and the supports critical to their safety, health and wellbeing
- Individual emergency plans for participants with critical supports
- Records from a past emergency or exercise showing critical supports maintained
What assessors commonly find
- No list of which participants rely on critical supports
- Individual emergency plans not prepared with participants
What evidence do I need?
For core-16a.1 Emergency and disaster: continuity of critical supports before, during, the evidence to bring is: Register of participants and the supports critical to their safety, health and wellbeing. It sits under Core module: governance and operational management and our reference for it is core-16a.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me register of participants and the supports critical to their safety, health and wellbeing, 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