NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: provision of supports
core-19.4 Support planning: annual or earlier plan review and progress assessment
Clause and reference core-19.4, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider reviews each support plan with the participant at least annually, or earlier as needs or circumstances change, and assesses progress toward outcomes and goals at a frequency proportionate to risk, functionality and the participant's wishes.
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
- Support plans showing review dates within twelve months
- Plan review records signed or acknowledged by the participant
- Goal progress reports or outcome tracking notes
- Triggers for early review recorded after hospitalisation or change in needs
What assessors commonly find
- Plans more than a year old in the file sample
- Progress toward goals not measured or recorded
What evidence do I need?
For core-19.4 Support planning: annual or earlier plan review and progress assessment, the evidence to bring is: Support plans showing review dates within twelve months. It sits under Core module: provision of supports and our reference for it is core-19.4. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me support plans showing review dates within twelve months, 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