NDIS Practice Standards
Module 2: Specialist behaviour support
m2-4.8 Restrictive practices (specialist): support to implementing providers on reduction
Clause and reference m2-4.8, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider supports the other providers implementing a behaviour support plan to deliver services, carry out the plan's strategies, and evaluate how well current approaches are reducing and eliminating restrictive practices.
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
- Records of support visits, calls or meetings with implementing providers
- Joint evaluation notes on restrictive practice use data
- Advice or guidance documents issued to implementing providers
What assessors commonly find
- Support ends once the plan is lodged
- No joint review of restrictive practice data with implementing providers
What evidence do I need?
For m2-4.8 Restrictive practices (specialist): support to implementing providers on reduction, the evidence to bring is: Records of support visits, calls or meetings with implementing providers. It sits under Module 2: Specialist behaviour support and our reference for it is m2-4.8. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me records of support visits, calls or meetings with implementing providers, 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