NDIS Practice Standards
Module 3: Early childhood supports
m3-8.1 Evidence-informed practice: strategies based on principles, research and law
Clause and reference m3-8.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Intervention strategies rest on explicit principles, validated practices, the best available research, and relevant laws and regulations, and the provider can say which principles and evidence each strategy relies on.
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
- Practice framework citing the early childhood intervention principles and research relied on
- Intervention plans naming the validated practice used
- Procedure for reviewing new interventions before adoption
What assessors commonly find
- Interventions used with no stated evidence base
- Practice framework out of date
What evidence do I need?
For m3-8.1 Evidence-informed practice: strategies based on principles, research and law, the evidence to bring is: Practice framework citing the early childhood intervention principles and research relied on. It sits under Module 3: Early childhood supports and our reference for it is m3-8.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me practice framework citing the early childhood intervention principles and research relied on, 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