NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: support provision environment
core-26a.3 Mealtime management: participant involved in assessment and planning
Clause and reference core-26a.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
With consent, each participant needing mealtime management is involved in assessing their needs and developing their mealtime management plan.
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
- Consent for mealtime assessment
- Plans recording the participant's preferences and input
- Notes of family or advocate involvement where the participant chose it
What assessors commonly find
- Plan contains no participant preferences
- Assessment done without consent recorded
What evidence do I need?
For core-26a.3 Mealtime management: participant involved in assessment and planning, the evidence to bring is: Consent for mealtime assessment; Plans recording the participant's preferences and input. It sits under Core module: support provision environment and our reference for it is core-26a.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me consent for mealtime assessment, 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