NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: governance and operational management
core-16a.6 Emergency and disaster: periodic review points during an event
Clause and reference core-16a.6, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The plans include periodic review points so the governing body can respond as an emergency or disaster changes.
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
- Plan section defining review intervals or triggers during an event
- Records of reviews held during a past event and decisions taken
- Situation reports used at each review point
What assessors commonly find
- No mechanism to revisit decisions during a prolonged event
- Review points defined but not used
What evidence do I need?
For core-16a.6 Emergency and disaster: periodic review points during an event, the evidence to bring is: Plan section defining review intervals or triggers during an event. It sits under Core module: governance and operational management and our reference for it is core-16a.6. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me plan section defining review intervals or triggers during an event, 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