NDIS Practice Standards
Module 3: Early childhood supports
m3-7.1 Capacity building: support network built to achieve plan outcomes
Clause and reference m3-7.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider works with the people in each child's life to build their capacity to achieve the functional outcomes identified in the support plan, so progress continues when the practitioner is not present.
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
- Coaching plans for parents, carers and educators tied to plan outcomes
- Session notes showing skills taught to the support network
- Review notes measuring the network's use of the strategies
What assessors commonly find
- Capacity building limited to direct therapy with the child
- Coaching not linked to the plan's outcomes
What evidence do I need?
For m3-7.1 Capacity building: support network built to achieve plan outcomes, the evidence to bring is: Coaching plans for parents, carers and educators tied to plan outcomes. It sits under Module 3: Early childhood supports and our reference for it is m3-7.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me coaching plans for parents, carers and educators tied to plan outcomes, 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