NDIS Practice Standards
Module 5A: Assistance with supported independent living
m5a-6.5 SIL tenancy and support agreements: support in the tenancy
Clause and reference m5a-6.5, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
A participant receiving both SIL and tenancy from the same provider is supported in the tenancy by: accessible information on tenancy rights and responsibilities, house-sharing, notice periods and exit; more detailed help when asked, including advocacy or legal services; understanding the right to change SIL provider at any time during the tenancy, with arrangements to make that work; involvement in decisions about the home and shared spaces; keys and private spaces managed to their preferences, controlling who enters; no limits on access or possessions except under a behaviour support plan, applied in the least restrictive way; the provider keeping compliance with building and tenancy laws; understanding the agreement in accessible form; and a copy signed by both parties, or a record of why not.
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
- Tenancy information pack covering rights, house sharing, notice periods and exit
- Key register and private space arrangements for each tenant
- Records of any access or possession limits cross-referenced to a current behaviour support plan
- Records of tenants who changed SIL provider during the tenancy
- Signed tenancy agreement copies or file notes explaining why not provided
What assessors commonly find
- Locked kitchens or fridges with no behaviour support plan authorising the restriction
- Participants without a key to their own home or bedroom
- No process to support a tenant changing SIL provider
What evidence do I need?
For m5a-6.5 SIL tenancy and support agreements: support in the tenancy, the evidence to bring is: Tenancy information pack covering rights, house sharing, notice periods and exit. It sits under Module 5A: Assistance with supported independent living and our reference for it is m5a-6.5. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me tenancy information pack covering rights, house sharing, notice periods and exit, 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