NDIS Practice Standards
Module 3: Early childhood supports
m3-3.2 The child: risk managed to create a safe environment for children
Clause and reference m3-3.2, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider has and applies practices and procedures to manage risk, with a focus on making every setting where it works with children safe, including homes, centres and community settings.
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 safe policy and risk management procedure for early childhood settings
- Risk assessments for home visits, centre sessions and community outings
- Working with children check register for all early childhood workers
- Safety checks of equipment and play spaces used with children
What assessors commonly find
- Generic adult risk assessments used for child sessions
- No risk assessment before sessions in community or home settings
What evidence do I need?
For m3-3.2 The child: risk managed to create a safe environment, the evidence to bring is: Child safe policy and risk management procedure for early childhood settings. It sits under Module 3: Early childhood supports and our reference for it is m3-3.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me child safe policy and risk management procedure for early childhood settings, 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