NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: support provision environment
core-26a.8 Mealtime management: texture-modified food and fluid procedures
Clause and reference core-26a.8, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Procedures let workers prepare and provide texture-modified foods and fluids according to each participant's mealtime management plan and check that meals are the correct texture identified in the 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
- Texture modification procedures referencing the plan's texture levels
- Texture testing or meal check records
- Training records on preparing modified textures and thickened fluids
What assessors commonly find
- No texture check before serving
- Thickener used inconsistently with the plan
What evidence do I need?
For core-26a.8 Mealtime management: texture-modified food and fluid procedures, the evidence to bring is: Texture modification procedures referencing the plan's texture levels; Texture testing or meal check records. It sits under Core module: support provision environment and our reference for it is core-26a.8. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me texture modification procedures referencing the plan's texture levels, 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