NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: governance and operational management
core-9.3 Governance: governing body skills identified and gaps trained
Clause and reference core-9.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The skills and knowledge the governing body needs to govern well are identified, and members undertake relevant training to close any gaps.
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
- Board skills matrix or capability assessment
- Training records for governing body members on NDIS obligations and safeguarding
- Induction pack for new board members
What assessors commonly find
- Skills matrix never completed or not updated
- Board members unaware of reportable incident obligations
What evidence do I need?
For core-9.3 Governance: governing body skills identified and gaps trained, the evidence to bring is: Board skills matrix or capability assessment. It sits under Core module: governance and operational management and our reference for it is core-9.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me board skills matrix or capability assessment, 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