NDIS Practice Standards
Module 2: Specialist behaviour support
m2-4.3 Restrictive practices (specialist): discussion of need, risks and alternatives
Clause and reference m2-4.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The participant and, with consent, their support network, implementing providers and other relevant stakeholders are engaged in discussing whether restrictive practices are needed, understand the risks of using them, and are offered alternatives during those discussions.
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
- Meeting notes or consultation records showing the participant and stakeholders present
- Consent records for sharing information with the support network
- Documented alternatives considered and reasons for any restrictive practice retained
- Easy read or accessible explanations given to the participant
What assessors commonly find
- Participant not involved or consulted only through the family
- Alternatives to restraint not recorded
What evidence do I need?
For m2-4.3 Restrictive practices (specialist): discussion of need, risks and alternatives, the evidence to bring is: Meeting notes or consultation records showing the participant and stakeholders present. It sits under Module 2: Specialist behaviour support and our reference for it is m2-4.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me meeting notes or consultation records showing the participant and stakeholders present, 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