NDIS Practice Standards
Module 3: Early childhood supports
m3-5.1 Inclusion: assessment focused on functioning in everyday routines
Clause and reference m3-5.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Assessment of each child's development looks at how the child functions in everyday routines and activities within their natural learning environments, such as home, early learning centre and community.
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
- Functional assessment reports describing the child in everyday routines
- Observation notes from the child's home, early learning or community settings
- Assessment tools and procedures listed in the early childhood practice manual
What assessors commonly find
- Assessment based only on standardised clinic testing
- No observation in the child's usual settings
What evidence do I need?
For m3-5.1 Inclusion: assessment focused on functioning in everyday routines, the evidence to bring is: Functional assessment reports describing the child in everyday routines. It sits under Module 3: Early childhood supports and our reference for it is m3-5.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me functional assessment reports describing the child in everyday routines, 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