NDIS Practice Standards
Module 2A: Implementing behaviour support plans
m2a-9.2 Reportable restrictive practice incidents (implementer): collaboration with mainstream services
Clause and reference m2a-9.2, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
In responding to unauthorised use of a restrictive practice, the implementing provider collaborates with mainstream services such as police and other emergency services, mental health services and emergency departments, treating medical practitioners and other allied health clinicians.
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
- Incident records noting contact with police, ambulance or health services
- Follow-up correspondence with treating practitioners
- Protocols with local emergency or mental health services
What assessors commonly find
- Mainstream service involvement not recorded
- No follow-up with treating clinicians after an incident
What evidence do I need?
For m2a-9.2 Reportable restrictive practice incidents (implementer): collaboration with mainstream services, the evidence to bring is: Incident records noting contact with police, ambulance or health services. It sits under Module 2A: Implementing behaviour support plans and our reference for it is m2a-9.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me incident records noting contact with police, ambulance or health services, 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