NDIS Practice Standards
Module 2: Specialist behaviour support
m2-5.2 Assessments and plans (specialist): plans draw on all relevant information
Clause and reference m2-5.2, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Behaviour support plans take into account every appropriate source of information, including the behaviour support assessment and, with the participant's consent, input from the support network, implementing providers, and assessments by other collaborating and mainstream providers.
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
- Plan reference list of assessments and reports considered
- Consent to collect information from other providers
- Health, psychiatric or allied health assessments held on file and cited
What assessors commonly find
- Relevant medical or psychiatric information missing from the plan
- No consent record for obtaining third-party assessments
What evidence do I need?
For m2-5.2 Assessments and plans (specialist): plans draw on all relevant information, the evidence to bring is: Plan reference list of assessments and reports considered. It sits under Module 2: Specialist behaviour support and our reference for it is m2-5.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me plan reference list of assessments and reports considered, 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