NDIS Practice Standards
Module 2: Specialist behaviour support
m2-5.3 Assessments and plans (specialist): evidence-informed plans with proactive strategies
Clause and reference m2-5.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Behaviour support plans are consistent with evidence-informed practice and include proactive strategies, not only responses to behaviour.
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
- Plans with proactive, skill-building and environmental strategies set out
- Clinical supervision or peer review notes on plan quality
- References to evidence or practice guidance used
What assessors commonly find
- Plans dominated by reactive strategies
- Quality of life or skill-building goals absent
What evidence do I need?
For m2-5.3 Assessments and plans (specialist): evidence-informed plans with proactive strategies, the evidence to bring is: Plans with proactive, skill-building and environmental strategies set out. It sits under Module 2: Specialist behaviour support and our reference for it is m2-5.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me plans with proactive, skill-building and environmental strategies set out, 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