NDIS Practice Standards
Module 2: Specialist behaviour support
m2-4.7 Restrictive practices (specialist): reduction and elimination strategies in plans
Clause and reference m2-4.7, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Each participant's behaviour support plan or interim plan contains strategies designed to reduce and eliminate any restrictive practices it includes.
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
- Sample comprehensive and interim plans with a reduction and elimination section
- Measurable targets and review points for each restrictive practice
- Progress notes showing reduction strategies being tested
What assessors commonly find
- Interim plans with no reduction strategy
- Reduction section generic and identical across participants
What evidence do I need?
For m2-4.7 Restrictive practices (specialist): reduction and elimination strategies in plans, the evidence to bring is: Sample comprehensive and interim plans with a reduction and elimination section. It sits under Module 2: Specialist behaviour support and our reference for it is m2-4.7. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me sample comprehensive and interim plans with a reduction and elimination section, 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