NDIS Practice Standards
Module 5A: Assistance with supported independent living
m5a-5.4 SIL practice governance: documented vision, values and strategies for home supports
Clause and reference m5a-5.4, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Policies and procedures document a vision, values, objectives and strategies for delivering supports at home that reflect contemporary practice and put participants' rights, safety and wellbeing first.
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
- Documented SIL practice framework or model of support
- Records of how the framework is communicated to workers and participants
- Management review records checking practice against the framework
What assessors commonly find
- Framework is a marketing statement not linked to procedures
- Workers unaware of the documented values
What evidence do I need?
For m5a-5.4 SIL practice governance: documented vision, values and strategies for home, the evidence to bring is: Documented SIL practice framework or model of support. It sits under Module 5A: Assistance with supported independent living and our reference for it is m5a-5.4. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me documented SIL practice framework or model of support, 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