NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: rights and responsibilities
core-6.5 Independence and informed choice: access to an advocate of choice
Clause and reference core-6.5, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider supports each participant's right to an advocate of their choosing, including an independent advocate, and their right to have that advocate present.
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
- Information given to participants about advocacy services, including independent advocates
- Records of advocates attending meetings, reviews or complaint discussions
- Advocacy section of the participant rights policy
What assessors commonly find
- Advocates excluded from meetings or not given notice
- Participants not told independent advocacy is available
What evidence do I need?
For core-6.5 Independence and informed choice: access to an advocate of choice, the evidence to bring is: Information given to participants about advocacy services, including independent advocates. It sits under Core module: rights and responsibilities and our reference for it is core-6.5. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me information given to participants about advocacy services, including independent advocates, 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