NDIS Practice Standards
Module 5A: Assistance with supported independent living
m5a-4.8 SIL safeguarding: regular review of safeguarding with participants
Clause and reference m5a-4.8, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Safeguarding approaches are reviewed regularly with participants, and adjustments are made for continuous improvement through day-to-day practice in the home, worker learning, supervision and governance.
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
- Scheduled safeguarding review records with participant input
- Continuous improvement register entries arising from safeguarding reviews
- Governance or quality committee reports on SIL safeguarding trends
What assessors commonly find
- Safeguarding plans not reviewed after incidents
- Review findings not fed back to workers
What evidence do I need?
For m5a-4.8 SIL safeguarding: regular review of safeguarding with participants, the evidence to bring is: Scheduled safeguarding review records with participant input. It sits under Module 5A: Assistance with supported independent living and our reference for it is m5a-4.8. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me scheduled safeguarding review records with participant input, 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