NDIS Practice Standards
Module 5A: Assistance with supported independent living
m5a-3.4 SIL supported decision-making: worker procedures for supported decision-making
Clause and reference m5a-3.4, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Policies and procedures guide workers to facilitate supported decision-making about supports in the participant's home and daily life: allowing a reasonable period; identifying when it may be needed; asking whether and how the participant wants support; giving support in line with their will and preferences; responding to cultural values and beliefs; and identifying when more support is needed, including from an authorised decision maker such as a nominee.
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
- Supported decision-making policy and procedure covering each required element
- Participant decision-making support plans recording how the participant wants to be supported
- Records identifying nominees or other authorised decision makers and when they are involved
What assessors commonly find
- Procedure jumps straight to substitute decision-making by family or guardian
- Cultural considerations absent from decision support records
What evidence do I need?
For m5a-3.4 SIL supported decision-making: worker procedures for supported decision-making, the evidence to bring is: Supported decision-making policy and procedure covering each required element. It sits under Module 5A: Assistance with supported independent living and our reference for it is m5a-3.4. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me supported decision-making policy and procedure covering each required element, 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