NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: support provision environment
core-26a.7 Mealtime management: menu planning for nutrition, preference and chronic risks
Clause and reference core-26a.7, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Menus are planned with each participant needing mealtime management so they receive nutritious, enjoyable meals reflecting their preferences, informed choice and practitioner recommendations in the plan, and so chronic health risks such as swallowing difficulty, diabetes, anaphylaxis, food allergies, obesity or being underweight are managed proactively.
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
- Menus developed with participants and checked against plan recommendations
- Allergy and dietary requirement registers
- Weight monitoring or nutrition review records
- Dietitian input on menus
What assessors commonly find
- Menus set by staff without participant choice
- Allergies not reflected in menus
What evidence do I need?
For core-26a.7 Mealtime management: menu planning for nutrition, preference and chronic risks, the evidence to bring is: Menus developed with participants and checked against plan recommendations; Allergy and dietary requirement registers. It sits under Core module: support provision environment and our reference for it is core-26a.7. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me menus developed with participants and checked against plan recommendations, 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