NDIS Practice Standards
Module 2A: Implementing behaviour support plans
m2a-5.1 Assessment and plan development (implementer): helping gather assessment information
Clause and reference m2a-5.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The implementing provider supports the specialist behaviour support provider to gather information for the functional behavioural assessment and other relevant assessments.
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 data, incident records and observations supplied to the specialist
- Records of interviews or site visits facilitated for the practitioner
- Consent records for information sharing
What assessors commonly find
- Specialist given incomplete incident history
- Staff unavailable for practitioner interviews
What evidence do I need?
For m2a-5.1 Assessment and plan development (implementer): helping gather assessment information, the evidence to bring is: Behaviour data, incident records and observations supplied to the specialist. It sits under Module 2A: Implementing behaviour support plans and our reference for it is m2a-5.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me behaviour data, incident records and observations supplied to the specialist, 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