NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: provision of supports
core-19.3 Support planning: periodic review of risk strategies with the participant
Clause and reference core-19.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider periodically reviews with each participant whether the risk management strategies are working and adequately addressing the risks, and changes them when needed.
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
- Dated risk strategy reviews in participant files
- Progress notes recording discussion of what is and is not working
- Updated risk assessments after incidents or changes in circumstances
What assessors commonly find
- Review dates passed without any review recorded
- Incidents not followed by a review of the related strategy
What evidence do I need?
For core-19.3 Support planning: periodic review of risk strategies with the participant, the evidence to bring is: Dated risk strategy reviews in participant files. It sits under Core module: provision of supports and our reference for it is core-19.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me dated risk strategy reviews in participant files, 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