NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: governance and operational management
core-9.4 Governance: strategic and business planning covers NDIS and risk
Clause and reference core-9.4, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The governing body makes sure strategic and business planning takes account of legislative requirements, organisational risks, NDIS operating requirements such as Agency requirements and guidance, the needs of participants and workers, and the wider organisational environment.
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
- Current strategic or business plan with a review date
- Minutes showing the plan was considered alongside the risk register and legislative changes
- Workforce and participant needs analysis feeding the plan
What assessors commonly find
- Business plan out of date or limited to financial targets
- No link between the risk register and planning
What evidence do I need?
For core-9.4 Governance: strategic and business planning covers NDIS and risk, the evidence to bring is: Current strategic or business plan with a review date. It sits under Core module: governance and operational management and our reference for it is core-9.4. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me current strategic or business plan with a review date, 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