NDIS Practice Standards
Module 2A: Implementing behaviour support plans
m2a-5.3 Assessment and plan development (implementer): worker skills to inform plans
Clause and reference m2a-5.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Relevant workers have the skills they need to contribute to the development of the participant's behaviour support plan.
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
- Training records on data collection and behaviour observation
- Examples of quality behaviour data recorded by workers
- Supervision notes on worker contributions to planning
What assessors commonly find
- Workers' records too vague to inform the assessment
- Key workers excluded from plan input
What evidence do I need?
For m2a-5.3 Assessment and plan development (implementer): worker skills to inform plans, the evidence to bring is: Training records on data collection and behaviour observation. It sits under Module 2A: Implementing behaviour support plans and our reference for it is m2a-5.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me training records on data collection and behaviour observation, 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