NDIS Practice Standards
Module 3: Early childhood supports
m3-4.7 The family: family strengths built and own support network developed
Clause and reference m3-4.7, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider promotes and develops the family's strengths and helps the family build its own network of formal and informal resources, recognising that good outcomes for children do not depend only on therapy programs focused on the child.
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
- Records of referrals or links to playgroups, parent groups and community services
- Plans with goals for the family's own network and resources
- Progress notes on the family's confidence and strengths
What assessors commonly find
- Plans contain only therapy goals with no family network goals
- No referrals to community or informal supports
What evidence do I need?
For m3-4.7 The family: family strengths built and own support network developed, the evidence to bring is: Records of referrals or links to playgroups, parent groups and community services. It sits under Module 3: Early childhood supports and our reference for it is m3-4.7. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me records of referrals or links to playgroups, parent groups and community services, 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