NDIS Practice Standards
Module 3: Early childhood supports
m3-4.3 The family: strengths, needs and priorities identified in partnership
Clause and reference m3-4.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider works in partnership with the family to identify the family's strengths, needs and priorities, and records them so they guide the supports provided.
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
- Family strengths and priorities assessment or ecomap
- Support plans linking goals to the priorities the family named
- Partnership meeting records
What assessors commonly find
- Assessment records only the child's deficits
- Family priorities absent from the plan goals
What evidence do I need?
For m3-4.3 The family: strengths, needs and priorities identified in partnership, the evidence to bring is: Family strengths and priorities assessment or ecomap. It sits under Module 3: Early childhood supports and our reference for it is m3-4.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me family strengths and priorities assessment or ecomap, 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