NDIS Practice Standards
Module 2: Specialist behaviour support
m2-4.4 Restrictive practices (specialist): stakeholder engagement in proportionate strategies
Clause and reference m2-4.4, 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 take part in developing behaviour support strategies that are proportionate to the risk of harm to the participant or to others.
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
- Risk of harm assessment linked to each strategy in the plan
- Records of strategy development sessions with stakeholders
- Draft plan feedback from implementing providers and family
What assessors commonly find
- Strategies more restrictive than the documented level of risk
- Strategy development done by the practitioner alone
What evidence do I need?
For m2-4.4 Restrictive practices (specialist): stakeholder engagement in proportionate strategies, the evidence to bring is: Risk of harm assessment linked to each strategy in the plan. It sits under Module 2: Specialist behaviour support and our reference for it is m2-4.4. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me risk of harm assessment linked to each strategy in the plan, 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