NDIS Practice Standards
Module 3: Early childhood supports
m3-9.2 Outcome based approach: documented plan describing interventions and outcomes
Clause and reference m3-9.2, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Each child has a documented support plan that sets out the interventions to be used and the functional outcomes they are meant to achieve, kept current and reviewed with the family.
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
- Current documented support plan in each child's file
- Plan listing interventions against each functional outcome
- Plan version and review date control
What assessors commonly find
- Plans missing for some children or past their review date
- Interventions listed with no link to outcomes
What evidence do I need?
For m3-9.2 Outcome based approach: documented plan describing interventions and outcomes, the evidence to bring is: Current documented support plan in each child's file; Plan listing interventions against each functional outcome. It sits under Module 3: Early childhood supports and our reference for it is m3-9.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me current documented support plan in each child's file, 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