NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: provision of supports
core-18.3 Access to supports: withdrawal of supports and dignity of risk choices
Clause and reference core-18.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider helps each participant understand when supports can be withdrawn, and does not withdraw or deny supports a participant needs only because that participant has made a dignity of risk choice.
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
- Exit and withdrawal of services policy with the dignity of risk safeguard
- Service agreement clauses on circumstances for ending supports
- Records of any withdrawal decision with reasons and the participant's response
- Risk enablement or dignity of risk assessments for participants making risky choices
What assessors commonly find
- Services ended after a participant chose a risky activity, with no risk discussion recorded
- Withdrawal grounds not explained to the participant before signing
What evidence do I need?
For core-18.3 Access to supports: withdrawal of supports and dignity of risk, the evidence to bring is: Exit and withdrawal of services policy with the dignity of risk safeguard. It sits under Core module: provision of supports and our reference for it is core-18.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me exit and withdrawal of services policy with the dignity of risk safeguard, 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