NDIS Practice Standards
Module 2: Specialist behaviour support
m2-5.4 Assessments and plans (specialist): interface with mainstream services
Clause and reference m2-5.4, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider considers how the participant's reasonable and necessary NDIS supports interact with any other supports or services from general service systems, and develops strategies and protocols to integrate them where practicable.
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 section describing interfaces with health, education, justice or housing services
- Protocols or agreements with mainstream services for the participant
- Contact records with mainstream services
What assessors commonly find
- Plan ignores school, hospital or mental health service involvement
- No agreed protocol where mainstream staff use the plan
What evidence do I need?
For m2-5.4 Assessments and plans (specialist): interface with mainstream services, the evidence to bring is: Plan section describing interfaces with health, education, justice or housing services. It sits under Module 2: Specialist behaviour support and our reference for it is m2-5.4. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me plan section describing interfaces with health, education, justice or housing services, 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