NDIS Practice Standards
Module 2: Specialist behaviour support
m2-5.5 Assessments and plans (specialist): plan developed with and given to implementers
Clause and reference m2-5.5, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Behaviour support plans are developed in consultation with the providers who will implement them, and each plan is given to those providers to consider and accept.
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
- Consultation records with implementing providers during drafting
- Plan distribution and acceptance records from each implementing provider
- Comments received from implementing providers and how they were addressed
What assessors commonly find
- Plan sent without consultation and no acceptance recorded
- One implementing provider omitted from distribution
What evidence do I need?
For m2-5.5 Assessments and plans (specialist): plan developed with and given, the evidence to bring is: Consultation records with implementing providers during drafting. It sits under Module 2: Specialist behaviour support and our reference for it is m2-5.5. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me consultation records with implementing providers during drafting, 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