NDIS Practice Standards
Module 2: Specialist behaviour support
m2-9.1 Interim behaviour support plans (specialist): risk evaluation and interim plan
Clause and reference m2-9.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
When a participant has an immediate need for behaviour support, the participant and implementing providers are involved in evaluating the risks the behaviour poses to the participant and others, and an interim behaviour support plan is developed that manages that risk appropriately.
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
- Interim behaviour support plans with risk evaluation sections
- Records of participant and implementer involvement in the risk evaluation
- Dates showing interim plan development against the referral date and RPBS timeframe
What assessors commonly find
- Interim plan written without input from implementers
- Risk evaluation missing or generic
What evidence do I need?
For m2-9.1 Interim behaviour support plans (specialist): risk evaluation and interim plan, the evidence to bring is: Interim behaviour support plans with risk evaluation sections. It sits under Module 2: Specialist behaviour support and our reference for it is m2-9.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me interim behaviour support plans with risk evaluation sections, 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