NDIS Practice Standards
Module 3: Early childhood supports
m3-3.1 The child: legal and human rights understood and built into practice
Clause and reference m3-3.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider knows and understands the legal and human rights of each child participant and builds those rights into the everyday practice of its early childhood workers, so the child's rights shape how sessions are planned and delivered.
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
- Child rights policy referencing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Induction and training records showing early childhood workers trained on children's rights
- Session notes showing the child's views and preferences sought and acted on
What assessors commonly find
- Rights policy written for adults only, with nothing on children's rights
- Workers unable to explain how rights shape their sessions with a child
What evidence do I need?
For m3-3.1 The child: legal and human rights understood and built, the evidence to bring is: Child rights policy referencing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me child rights policy referencing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 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