NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: rights and responsibilities
core-6.1 Independence and informed choice: active decision-making with timely accessible information
Clause and reference core-6.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider supports each participant to make active decisions and individual choices, giving them timely information in the language, communication mode and terms they are most likely to understand.
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
- Supported decision-making procedure
- Participant files showing options and information provided before decisions
- Records of the participant's own choices, including where they differ from the support network's view
What assessors commonly find
- Decisions made by family or staff with no record of the participant's own view
- Information about options provided after the decision was made
What evidence do I need?
For core-6.1 Independence and informed choice: active decision-making with timely accessible information, the evidence to bring is: Supported decision-making procedure; Participant files showing options and information provided before decisions. It sits under Core module: rights and responsibilities and our reference for it is core-6.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me supported decision-making procedure, 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