NDIS Practice Standards
Module 3: Early childhood supports
m3-6.3 Collaboration: information shared across the team with family consent
Clause and reference m3-6.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
With the family's consent, the provider communicates and shares information, knowledge and skills between the family, itself and other collaborating providers, so everyone working with the child has what they need.
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
- Signed family consent to share information, naming the parties
- Correspondence or reports shared with collaborating providers
- Records of joint sessions or skill-sharing between providers
What assessors commonly find
- Information shared without documented consent
- Consent forms that do not name who may receive information
What evidence do I need?
For m3-6.3 Collaboration: information shared across the team with family consent, the evidence to bring is: Signed family consent to share information, naming the parties. It sits under Module 3: Early childhood supports and our reference for it is m3-6.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me signed family consent to share information, naming the parties, 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