NDIS Practice Standards
Module 2A: Implementing behaviour support plans
m2a-9.6 Reportable restrictive practice incidents (implementer): initiating authorisation
Clause and reference m2a-9.6, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The implementing provider starts authorisation processes (however described) where its jurisdiction requires them.
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
- Authorisation applications lodged after an incident
- Tracking of pending authorisation applications
- Correspondence with the state or territory authorising body
What assessors commonly find
- Repeated use of an unauthorised practice with no authorisation sought
- Authorisation process stalled without follow-up
What evidence do I need?
For m2a-9.6 Reportable restrictive practice incidents (implementer): initiating authorisation, the evidence to bring is: Authorisation applications lodged after an incident; Tracking of pending authorisation applications. It sits under Module 2A: Implementing behaviour support plans and our reference for it is m2a-9.6. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me authorisation applications lodged after an incident, 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