NDIS Practice Standards
Module 5A: Assistance with supported independent living
m5a-4.2 SIL safeguarding: dignity of risk balanced with safety, applied consistently
Clause and reference m5a-4.2, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Policies and procedures balance participants' dignity of risk in home and daily life decisions with safety obligations at home and in the community, involve participants in safeguarding discussions, and make sure all workers in the home understand and apply safeguarding approaches consistently.
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
- Safeguarding policy for SIL homes addressing dignity of risk
- Individual safeguarding plans developed with the participant
- House handover or team meeting records showing safeguarding approaches communicated to all shifts
What assessors commonly find
- Different shifts apply different rules to the same participant
- Participant not involved in their own safeguarding plan
What evidence do I need?
For m5a-4.2 SIL safeguarding: dignity of risk balanced with safety, applied consistently, the evidence to bring is: Safeguarding policy for SIL homes addressing dignity of risk. It sits under Module 5A: Assistance with supported independent living and our reference for it is m5a-4.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me safeguarding policy for SIL homes addressing dignity of risk, 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