NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: support provision environment
core-26a.5 Mealtime management: training in safe, enjoyable meals and health risks
Clause and reference core-26a.5, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Every worker providing mealtime management is trained to prepare and provide safe meals that participants would reasonably find enjoyable, to manage emerging and chronic health risks from mealtime difficulties proactively, and to know how to seek help with those risks.
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 management training records and course content
- Competency assessments for safe meal preparation and assistance
- Escalation contacts for mealtime health concerns
What assessors commonly find
- Training limited to food handling, not swallowing risk
- Workers unsure when to seek practitioner help
What evidence do I need?
For core-26a.5 Mealtime management: training in safe, enjoyable meals and health risks, the evidence to bring is: Mealtime management training records and course content. It sits under Core module: support provision environment and our reference for it is core-26a.5. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me mealtime management training records and course content, 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