NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: rights and responsibilities
core-6.3 Independence and informed choice: autonomy, intimacy and sexual expression
Clause and reference core-6.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider respects each participant's autonomy, including their right to intimacy and to sexual expression.
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
- Policy on relationships, sexuality and intimacy
- Worker training records on supporting sexual expression and relationships
- Support plans or notes showing how privacy for relationships is supported
What assessors commonly find
- Blanket house rules banning visitors or partners
- Workers unsure how to respond to a request about relationships
What evidence do I need?
For core-6.3 Independence and informed choice: autonomy, intimacy and sexual expression, the evidence to bring is: Policy on relationships, sexuality and intimacy; Worker training records on supporting sexual expression and relationships. It sits under Core module: rights and responsibilities and our reference for it is core-6.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me policy on relationships, sexuality and intimacy, 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