NDIS Practice Standards
Module 4: Specialised support coordination
m4-3.1 Specialised support coordination: risk factors of high-risk participants understood
Clause and reference m4-3.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider shows knowledge and understanding of the risk factors faced by each participant with high-risk or complex needs, such as health, housing, justice, mental health or safety risks.
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
- Participant risk assessments recording individual risk factors
- Specialist support coordinator qualifications and experience records
- Case notes showing risk factors monitored
What assessors commonly find
- Generic risk forms that do not capture the participant's complex needs
- Risk assessments not updated after a change in circumstances
What evidence do I need?
For m4-3.1 Specialised support coordination: risk factors of high-risk participants understood, the evidence to bring is: Participant risk assessments recording individual risk factors; Specialist support coordinator qualifications and experience records. It sits under Module 4: Specialised support coordination and our reference for it is m4-3.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me participant risk assessments recording individual risk factors, 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