NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: provision of supports
core-19.2A Support planning: risk of reliance on supports and disruption
Clause and reference core-19.2A, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The participant's risk assessment considers how far the participant relies on the provider's services for daily living needs and how much their health and safety would suffer if those services were disrupted.
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
- Risk assessments with a reliance or criticality rating for each participant
- Register of participants who would be at high risk if services stopped
- Individual plans for backup workers or alternative supports in a disruption
- Link between the reliance rating and the emergency and disaster management plan
What assessors commonly find
- Reliance on services not assessed, so high-risk participants cannot be prioritised in an emergency
- Disruption impact considered at organisation level only
What evidence do I need?
For core-19.2A Support planning: risk of reliance on supports and disruption, the evidence to bring is: Risk assessments with a reliance or criticality rating for each participant. It sits under Core module: provision of supports and our reference for it is core-19.2A. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me risk assessments with a reliance or criticality rating for each participant, 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