You can only use funding in your NDIS plan for behaviour support from a specialist behaviour support provider.
This means a provider who is registered with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission . This is sometimes called the NDIS Commission.
The laws for the NDIS state providers have to do certain things. If they don’t do these things, they are breaking the rules the NDIS Commission has set for providers.
Your behaviour support provider must:
- meet the requirements of the NDIS (Provider Registration and Practice Standards) Rules 2018 .
- be registered for behaviour support assessments, including functional behaviour assessments, and writing behaviour support plans.
- use an NDIS behaviour support practitioner to do your behaviour assessment and write your behaviour support plan.
Behaviour support practitioners must be considered suitable to provide behaviour support to NDIS participants by the NDIS Commission.
Learn more about who can develop a behaviour support plan .
sometimes, a behaviour support practitioner is a sole provider. This means they are the specialist behaviour support provider and the practitioner.
Providers who get funding from the NDIS must make sure anyone working for them to provide behaviour support has a clearance and is suitable to provide this support.
Service providers and support workers who use regulated restrictive practices when they support you are called implementing providers.
For example, a support worker who holds your hands to stop you hitting yourself is using a regulated restrictive practice.
If an implementing provider uses, or may need to use, restrictive practices when they support you, they must be a registered NDIS provider of those supports.
They must be registered, whether the restrictive practice is used short-term or regularly. They must be assessed and audited against module 2A in their registration .
Providers who use intensive and complex behaviour supports must also be registered.
Learn more about who can provide behaviour support and the registration requirements for implementing providers.
Do we fund training for people to provide your supports?
Yes. Your NDIS behaviour support practitioner can recommend and provide training for support workers who are using a behaviour support plan. This includes training in the safe use of restrictive practices.
Your implementing providers will develop and maintain their skills to make sure they can use and monitor your behaviour support strategies in the right way.
We may fund your NDIS behaviour support practitioner to provide behaviour support training for a family member, friend or carer.
This will help make sure they are able to use the behaviour support strategies in your behaviour support plan to support you.