NDIS Practice Standards
Module 5: Specialist disability accommodation
m5-3.1 SDA rights and responsibilities: rights built into practice and dwelling adjustments
Clause and reference m5-3.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The SDA provider understands each participant's legal and human rights and builds them into everyday practice, including by making reasonable adjustments or modifications to the dwelling so it meets each participant's needs.
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
- SDA rights and responsibilities policy referring to the participant's legal and human rights
- Register of reasonable adjustment or modification requests for each dwelling with decision and completion dates
- Staff induction records covering human rights obligations in SDA
What assessors commonly find
- Modification requests left open without a decision or reason given to the participant
- Rights policy exists but staff cannot describe how it changes their practice
What evidence do I need?
For m5-3.1 SDA rights and responsibilities: rights built into practice and dwelling, the evidence to bring is: SDA rights and responsibilities policy referring to the participant's legal and human rights. It sits under Module 5: Specialist disability accommodation and our reference for it is m5-3.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me sDA rights and responsibilities policy referring to the participant's legal and human rights, 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