NDIS Practice Standards
Module 5A: Assistance with supported independent living
m5a-6.1 SIL tenancy and support agreements: separate agreements when provider gives both
Clause and reference m5a-6.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Where one provider delivers both assistance with supported independent living and tenancy to the same participant, there are separate service and tenancy agreements.
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
- Separate signed SIL service agreement and tenancy agreement for each affected participant
- Register of participants receiving both SIL and tenancy from the provider
- Agreement templates showing no cross-dependency clauses
What assessors commonly find
- Single combined accommodation and support agreement
- Tenancy agreement held but SIL agreement missing
What evidence do I need?
For m5a-6.1 SIL tenancy and support agreements: separate agreements when provider gives, the evidence to bring is: Separate signed SIL service agreement and tenancy agreement for each affected participant. It sits under Module 5A: Assistance with supported independent living and our reference for it is m5a-6.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me separate signed SIL service agreement and tenancy agreement for each affected participant, 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