NDIS Practice Standards
Module 3: Early childhood supports
m3-8.2 Evidence-informed practice: right expertise in place for the support network
Clause and reference m3-8.2, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider has the information, knowledge, skills and expertise needed to deliver quality supports to each participant's support network, with workers matched to the supports they deliver.
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
- Qualification and professional registration records for early childhood practitioners
- Skills matrix matched to the supports offered
- Supervision records for practitioners
What assessors commonly find
- Workers delivering supports outside their qualification or registration
- No skills matrix against the supports delivered
What evidence do I need?
For m3-8.2 Evidence-informed practice: right expertise in place for the support network, the evidence to bring is: Qualification and professional registration records for early childhood practitioners. It sits under Module 3: Early childhood supports and our reference for it is m3-8.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me qualification and professional registration records for early childhood practitioners, 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