NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: rights and responsibilities
core-3.3 Person-centred supports: links with support network and chosen community
Clause and reference core-3.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider supports each participant to stay connected with their support network and the community they choose, in the way and to the extent the participant directs.
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
- Support plans recording the people and community activities the participant wants to keep
- Progress notes or rosters showing support for community access and contact with family and friends
- Records of the participant's directions about who may be involved in their supports
What assessors commonly find
- Community access dropped when staffing is short with no discussion with the participant
- Family involved in decisions without the participant's direction
What evidence do I need?
For core-3.3 Person-centred supports: links with support network and chosen community, the evidence to bring is: Support plans recording the people and community activities the participant wants to keep. It sits under Core module: rights and responsibilities and our reference for it is core-3.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me support plans recording the people and community activities the participant wants to keep, 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