WhatsUp Behaviour

You can now confirm whether a behaviour support practitioner is considered suitable by the NDIS Commission by using this new search tool. Only behaviour support practitioners who have consented to publish their details are included in the search results. A number of provisionally suitable behaviour support practitioners awaiting an outcome on their applications will not appear until their applications are approved and they have been deemed suitable.

The NDIS Commission produced a report on quality evaluations of 2,744 BSPs submitted between 1 July 2020 and 31 December 2021. evaluations were conducted using the BSP-QEII and the NDIS Commission’s own Companion Tool for compliance with the NDIS Restrictive Practices and Behaviour Support Rules 2018. The national median score of evaluated plans was 12 out of 24, which falls in the “weak” quality range, and 80% of BSPs scored in the underdeveloped or weak quality categories.

Based on the findings of this audit, the NDIS Commission is undertaking a series of actions to lift the capability of behaviour support providers and improve the quality of plans.

Registered NDIS behaviour support providers have received correspondence from the NDIS Commission about the review, specifically the requirement to take all reasonable steps to consult with

• the person subject to the BSP, when developing and reviewing a BSP;

• that person’s family, carers, guardian, or other relevant persons; and

• registered NDIS provider(s) that may use a regulated restrictive practice under the BSP.

The NDIS Commission has highlighted that its draft interim and comprehensive BSP templates do not provide for recording the consultation with participants, and it is not apparent from the BSPs evaluated that there has been direct contact between the behaviour support practitioner and the relevant participant.

The Commission will exercise its powers to obtain information about the engagement and consultation with NDIS participants and other aspects of behaviour support providers’ practices to help target further education, guidance, and compliance actions.

To begin this effort, the NDIS Commission will engage with behaviour support providers who lodged one or more BSPs with the NDIS Commission between 1 July 2021 and 30 June 2022. Selected participants will receive further information by the end of March 2023.

The NDIS Commission sort input into the review of the interim and comprehensive BSP templates. They wanted to know what stakeholders like about the current templates, what they do not like about them, and how the templates can be made better. The online survey closed 17 March 2023.