NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: provision of supports
core-19.2 Support planning: regular risk assessment and risk treatment strategies
Clause and reference core-19.2, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Working with each participant, the provider regularly carries out risk assessments, documents them in the support plan, and plans and puts in place strategies to treat the known risks to that participant.
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
- Individual risk assessments filed with the support plan and dated
- Risk treatment strategies linked to each identified risk
- Records of participant involvement in the risk assessment
- Risk assessment review schedule
What assessors commonly find
- Risk assessment completed once at intake and never repeated
- Strategies listed but not implemented in daily practice notes
What evidence do I need?
For core-19.2 Support planning: regular risk assessment and risk treatment strategies, the evidence to bring is: Individual risk assessments filed with the support plan and dated. It sits under Core module: provision of supports and our reference for it is core-19.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me individual risk assessments filed with the support plan and dated, 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