NDIS Practice Standards
Module 2: Specialist behaviour support
m2-5.1 Assessments and plans (specialist): behaviour support assessment
Clause and reference m2-5.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider works with each participant and their support network to complete a behaviour support assessment that identifies unmet needs, the function or purpose of behaviours, and strategies to address behaviours of concern.
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
- Functional behavioural assessment reports with data sources listed
- Observation records, ABC charts or interview notes used in the assessment
- Records of participant and support network involvement in the assessment
What assessors commonly find
- Assessment based only on file review without observation
- Function of behaviour not stated or not linked to strategies
What evidence do I need?
For m2-5.1 Assessments and plans (specialist): behaviour support assessment, the evidence to bring is: Functional behavioural assessment reports with data sources listed. It sits under Module 2: Specialist behaviour support and our reference for it is m2-5.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me functional behavioural assessment reports with data sources listed, 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