NDIS Practice Standards
Module 3: Early childhood supports
m3-5.4 Inclusion: participation in daily routines in natural learning environments promoted
Clause and reference m3-5.4, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider promotes each child's inclusion through taking part in daily routines in their natural learning environments, such as early learning, kindergarten and home routines.
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
- Strategies embedded in early learning or kindergarten routines, with educator collaboration notes
- Routine participation checklists reviewed with the family
- Visit records to the child's early learning setting
What assessors commonly find
- Strategies never shared with the child's early learning educators
- No evidence of supports in daily routines outside therapy
What evidence do I need?
For m3-5.4 Inclusion: participation in daily routines in natural learning environments promoted, the evidence to bring is: Strategies embedded in early learning or kindergarten routines, with educator collaboration notes. It sits under Module 3: Early childhood supports and our reference for it is m3-5.4. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me strategies embedded in early learning or kindergarten routines, with educator collaboration notes, 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