NDIS Practice Standards
Module 2A: Implementing behaviour support plans
m2a-9.5 Reportable restrictive practice incidents (implementer): adjusting supports and engaging a specialist
Clause and reference m2a-9.5, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Based on incident review, the implementing provider adjusts the participant's supports and, where appropriate, facilitates engagement of a specialist behaviour support provider to develop or review the behaviour support plan or interim plan, as required by the NDIS (Restrictive Practices and Behaviour Support) Rules 2018.
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
- Records of support changes following incident review
- Referral or engagement records for a specialist behaviour support provider
- Updated or new plans developed after the incident
What assessors commonly find
- No specialist engaged after repeated unauthorised use
- Supports unchanged following incident review
What evidence do I need?
For m2a-9.5 Reportable restrictive practice incidents (implementer): adjusting supports and engaging, the evidence to bring is: Records of support changes following incident review. It sits under Module 2A: Implementing behaviour support plans and our reference for it is m2a-9.5. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me records of support changes following incident review, 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