NDIS Practice Standards
Module 2: Specialist behaviour support
m2-6.1 Supporting implementation (specialist): authorisation requirements explained to implementers
Clause and reference m2-6.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider helps implementing providers understand the state or territory legislation and policy requirements for obtaining authorisation (however described) of any restrictive practice in the plan, including any conditions on its use.
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
- Guidance notes or briefing records on authorisation given to implementing providers
- Copies of authorisation conditions shared with implementers
- Questions logged from implementers and answers given
What assessors commonly find
- Implementers unaware of conditions attached to an authorisation
- No record that authorisation requirements were explained
What evidence do I need?
For m2-6.1 Supporting implementation (specialist): authorisation requirements explained to implementers, the evidence to bring is: Guidance notes or briefing records on authorisation given to implementing providers. It sits under Module 2: Specialist behaviour support and our reference for it is m2-6.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me guidance notes or briefing records on authorisation given to implementing providers, 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