NDIS Practice Standards
Module 3: Early childhood supports
m3-4.5 The family: plans culturally responsive to family beliefs and community
Clause and reference m3-4.5, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Each support plan responds to and respects the family's cultural beliefs and their community, including language, kinship and community practices, and does not ask the family to set aside its beliefs to receive supports.
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
- Cultural information captured at intake (language, cultural practices, community connections)
- Records of interpreter or cultural liaison use
- Cultural responsiveness training records for early childhood workers
What assessors commonly find
- Culture recorded at intake but not reflected in the plan
- Interpreters not offered to families who need them
What evidence do I need?
For m3-4.5 The family: plans culturally responsive to family beliefs and community, the evidence to bring is: Cultural information captured at intake (language, cultural practices, community connections). It sits under Module 3: Early childhood supports and our reference for it is m3-4.5. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me cultural information captured at intake (language, cultural practices, community connections), 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