NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: rights and responsibilities
core-6.2 Independence and informed choice: dignity of risk respected
Clause and reference core-6.2, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider supports each participant's right to the dignity of risk when making decisions and, where needed, helps them weigh the benefits and risks of the options being considered.
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
- Dignity of risk policy
- Risk assessments completed with the participant that record the choice made and agreed safeguards
- Progress notes showing a risky choice supported rather than refused
What assessors commonly find
- Activities stopped because of risk without the participant's involvement
- Risk assessments written about the participant rather than with them
What evidence do I need?
For core-6.2 Independence and informed choice: dignity of risk respected, the evidence to bring is: Dignity of risk policy. It sits under Core module: rights and responsibilities and our reference for it is core-6.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me dignity of risk policy, 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