NDIS Practice Standards
Module 2A: Implementing behaviour support plans
m2a-4.4 Regulated restrictive practices (implementer): joint evaluation with the specialist
Clause and reference m2a-4.4, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The implementing provider works with specialist behaviour support providers to evaluate how effective current approaches are at reducing and eliminating restrictive practices, including how the plan's strategies are being implemented.
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
- Joint review meeting notes with the specialist behaviour support provider
- Data shared with the specialist and their feedback
- Actions arising from joint evaluation
What assessors commonly find
- No contact with the specialist between plan reviews
- Evaluation of reduction strategies never documented
What evidence do I need?
For m2a-4.4 Regulated restrictive practices (implementer): joint evaluation with the specialist, the evidence to bring is: Joint review meeting notes with the specialist behaviour support provider. It sits under Module 2A: Implementing behaviour support plans and our reference for it is m2a-4.4. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me joint review meeting notes with the specialist behaviour support provider, 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