The NDIS Practice Standards Explained
Published: 31 January 2022
Published: 31 January 2022
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), which is delivered by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), supplies funding to Australian people who live with permanent and significant disability. This funding can be used to receive supports and services from registered NDIS providers (NDIA 2020).
The NDIS Practice Standards work alongside the NDIS Code of Conduct to establish the benchmark of performance, quality and safety that NDIS providers should meet in their delivery of supports and services (NDIS Commission 2021).
In other words, the NDIS Practice Standards help to inform NDIS participants (i.e. NDIS funding recipients) about the quality they should be expecting from the supports and services they receive (NDIS Commission 2021).
The NDIS Practice Standards.
The NDIS Practice Standards are overseen by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, an independent body that was established in order to improve the quality and safety of NDIS supports and services (NDIS Commission 2019).
The NDIS Practice Standards allow providers to assess their own performance, as well as ensure that NDIS participants know the level of quality and safety they should be expecting (NDIS Commission 2021).
The NDIS Practice Standards provide a benchmark for the quality and safety of supports and services to be measured against (NDIS Commission 2021).
The NDIS Practice Standards are set out as follows:
(NDIS Commission 2021)
This article will provide a brief outline of each module, as well as links to Ausmed resources that explain each component in more detail.
The purpose of these standards is to set out the rights of participants and the responsibilities of providers. They include:
(NDIS Commission 2021)
The purpose of these standards is to set out the governance and operational management responsibilities for providers. They include:
(NDIS Commission 2021)
The purpose of these standards is to set out the responsibilities for providers when delivering supports. They include:
(NDIS Commission 2021)
The purpose of these standards is to set out expectations of the environment in which supports are provided. They include:
(NDIS Commission 2021)
The purpose of this module is to set out the responsibilities of providers when providing specific supports and services, which include:
(NDIS Commission 2021)
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This module is for providers that are registered to provide specialist behaviour support.
The standards included in this module are:
(NDIS Commission 2021)
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This module is for providers that:
The standards included in this module are:
(NDIS Commission 2021)
This module is for providers that are registered to provide early childhood supports.
The standards included in this module are:
(NDIS Commission 2021)
This module is for providers that are registered to provide specialist support coordination.
The standards included in this module are:
(NDIS Commission 2021)
This module is for providers that are registered to provide specialist disability accommodation.
The standards included in this module are:
(NDIS Commission 2021)
This module is for providers that are delivering lower risk or lower complexity supports and services.
The standards included in this module are:
(NDIS Commission 2021)
For more information, and to increase your understanding of the NDIS Practice Standards and your responsibilities, refer to the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission website, the NDIS websiteand the latest NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators document.