NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: support provision environment
core-26a.1 Mealtime management: identifying participants who need it
Clause and reference core-26a.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider identifies each participant who requires mealtime management, so that their eating, drinking and swallowing needs can be assessed and planned for before meals are provided.
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
- Mealtime or swallowing screening at intake
- Register of participants requiring mealtime management
- Intake forms asking about swallowing, eating and drinking difficulties
What assessors commonly find
- Participants with choking history not on the register
- No screening for mealtime risk
What evidence do I need?
For core-26a.1 Mealtime management: identifying participants who need it, the evidence to bring is: Mealtime or swallowing screening at intake; Register of participants requiring mealtime management. It sits under Core module: support provision environment and our reference for it is core-26a.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me mealtime or swallowing screening at intake, 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