NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: rights and responsibilities
core-7.1 Freedom from abuse: prevention policies, procedures and practice
Clause and reference core-7.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider has policies, procedures and practices that actively prevent violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation and discrimination, covering recruitment, supervision, culture and early warning signs.
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
- Safeguarding and abuse prevention policy and procedure
- Worker training records on recognising and preventing abuse and neglect
- Worker screening clearance records for risk assessed roles
- Supervision and spot check records looking for warning signs
What assessors commonly find
- Policy present but no practical prevention measures such as supervision or spot checks
- Workers cannot describe signs of neglect or financial exploitation
What evidence do I need?
For core-7.1 Freedom from abuse: prevention policies, procedures and practice, the evidence to bring is: Safeguarding and abuse prevention policy and procedure. It sits under Core module: rights and responsibilities and our reference for it is core-7.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me safeguarding and abuse prevention policy and 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