NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: rights and responsibilities
core-3.1 Person-centred supports: participant rights built into everyday practice
Clause and reference core-3.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Workers and managers understand the legal and human rights of each participant, and those rights visibly shape how supports are planned and delivered day to day rather than sitting only in a policy.
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
- Participant rights policy referencing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the NDIS Code of Conduct
- Worker induction and refresher records covering participant rights
- Sample of support plans or progress notes showing rights considered in decisions
- Interview notes or observation records where workers explain participant rights
What assessors commonly find
- Rights policy exists but workers cannot describe how it changes their practice
- Restrictions on participants imposed for convenience with no rights consideration recorded
What evidence do I need?
For core-3.1 Person-centred supports: participant rights built into everyday practice, the evidence to bring is: Participant rights policy referencing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the NDIS Code of Conduct; Worker induction and refresher records covering participant rights. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me participant rights policy referencing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the NDIS Code of Conduct, 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