NDIS Practice Standards
Module 5: Specialist disability accommodation
m5-7.3 SDA tenancy management: documented arrangements with SIL providers in the dwelling
Clause and reference m5-7.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider has documented arrangements with each participant and their SIL providers in the dwelling setting out who is responsible for: working together so shared living works for all tenants; managing potential conflicts; responding to violence, abuse, exploitation or conflict that may affect the dwelling; how tenant concerns about the dwelling are raised and addressed; managing behaviours of concern where relevant; agreeing and communicating changes in circumstances or supports; continuity of supports and SDA in a disaster or emergency; and, in shared living, filling vacancies with regard to each participant's needs and wishes. A refusal to consent is recorded.
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
- Signed SDA and SIL provider arrangement documents per dwelling covering each listed matter
- Meeting notes between SDA and SIL providers on shared living issues
- Record of any participant who did not consent to the arrangement
- Emergency continuity plan for the dwelling naming each party's role
What assessors commonly find
- Arrangement with the SIL provider is verbal only
- No agreed approach to emergency relocation of tenants
What evidence do I need?
For m5-7.3 SDA tenancy management: documented arrangements with SIL providers, the evidence to bring is: Signed SDA and SIL provider arrangement documents per dwelling covering each listed matter. It sits under Module 5: Specialist disability accommodation and our reference for it is m5-7.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me signed SDA and SIL provider arrangement documents per dwelling covering each listed matter, 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