NDIS Practice Standards
Module 2: Specialist behaviour support
m2-4.2 Restrictive practices (specialist): practitioner training on restrictive practices and risk
Clause and reference m2-4.2, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Each behaviour support practitioner undertakes professional development to keep their understanding current of which practices are considered restrictive and the risks those practices carry.
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
- Training records on restrictive practice identification and associated risks for each practitioner
- Content outline of restrictive practice training covering positional asphyxia and chemical restraint risks
- Supervision notes reviewing restrictive practice risk in specific plans
What assessors commonly find
- Restrictive practice training completed once at induction and never refreshed
- Risks of specific practices, such as PRN psychotropics, not addressed
What evidence do I need?
For m2-4.2 Restrictive practices (specialist): practitioner training on restrictive practices and risk, the evidence to bring is: Training records on restrictive practice identification and associated risks for each practitioner. It sits under Module 2: Specialist behaviour support and our reference for it is m2-4.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me training records on restrictive practice identification and associated risks for each practitioner, 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