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NDIS Practice Standards

Module 2A: Implementing behaviour support plans

m2a-3.1 Behaviour support in the NDIS (implementer): legislative and policy framework knowledge

Clause and reference m2a-3.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators

The requirement

The implementing provider knows and understands the NDIS and state and territory legislative and policy frameworks for behaviour support.

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

  • Behaviour support and restrictive practice procedure referencing the NDIS and state frameworks
  • Staff and manager training records on behaviour support frameworks
  • Jurisdiction guidance documents held for each state served

What assessors commonly find

  • Managers unaware of the state authorisation scheme
  • Procedures out of date with current Commonwealth rules

What evidence do I need?

For m2a-3.1 Behaviour support in the NDIS (implementer): legislative and policy framework, the evidence to bring is: Behaviour support and restrictive practice procedure referencing the NDIS and state frameworks. It sits under Module 2A: Implementing behaviour support plans and our reference for it is m2a-3.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.

Answer the reviewer first

Show me behaviour support and restrictive practice procedure referencing the NDIS and state frameworks, 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

All four frameworks · The questions providers ask.