NDIS Practice Standards
Module 5: Specialist disability accommodation
m5-3.3 SDA rights and responsibilities: autonomy, privacy, intimacy and sexual expression
Clause and reference m5-3.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The SDA provider respects each participant's autonomy, including the right to privacy, to intimacy and to sexual expression in their dwelling.
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
- Policy on privacy, relationships and sexual expression in SDA dwellings
- Dwelling inspection records showing lockable bedrooms and private bathroom access where the design provides it
- Records of visitor arrangements agreed with tenants
What assessors commonly find
- House rules restrict overnight guests or partners without a participant-specific basis
- Staff enter bedrooms without knocking or consent
What evidence do I need?
For m5-3.3 SDA rights and responsibilities: autonomy, privacy, intimacy and sexual expression, the evidence to bring is: Policy on privacy, relationships and sexual expression in SDA dwellings. It sits under Module 5: Specialist disability accommodation and our reference for it is m5-3.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me policy on privacy, relationships and sexual expression in SDA dwellings, 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