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NDIS Commission
By Jessica Quilty
Fact Sheets and Guides
NEW Participant Fact Sheets on Behaviour Support
The NDIS Commission has created five fact sheets about behaviour support. They have been written with and for NDIS participants in regular and Easy Read versions.
• What is positive behaviour support
• Understanding your rights
• Choosing a specialist behaviour support provider
• What to expect from your specialist behaviour support provider
• What to do if you are not happy with your specialist behaviour support provider
Updates to the Restrictive Practice Safe Transportation Guide
The Safe Transportation Guide was updated by the NDIS Commission in February 2023. This guide was developed for registered NDIS providers and NDIS behaviour support practitioners supporting NDIS participants, but it may also be of interest to anyone who supports a person with disability. It provides guidance on the use of restrictive practices in transportation.
High Intensity Support Skill Descriptors
The NDIS Commission has modified the High Intensity Support Skills Descriptors, which came into effect on 1 February 2023.
The descriptors detail the knowledge and skills that workers should have when supporting participants with high intensity daily personal activities listed in the NDIS Practice Standards (High Intensity Daily Personal Activities Module 1).
Providers delivering high intensity supports contained in that module should be sure that they are across these new changes:
• Complex bowel care
• Enteral feeding support
• Dysphagia support
• Ventilator support
• Tracheostomy support
• Urinary catheter support
• Subcutaneous injections
• Complex wound care support
There is also updated general advice for providers delivering epilepsy and seizure support. If you missed our original alert, find out more here.
New and Updated Practice Alerts
Sun and summer safety provides guidance on heat-related illness, its risk factors, managing this risk, and preventing heat-related illness in NDIS participants.
Pain management covers some of the causes of pain, who is at risk, and how to identify, manage, and prevent pain in NDIS participants.
High-risk restrictive practices describes practices which place participants at high risk of harm and may constitute or result in abuse, unlawful physical contact, or neglect of a participant. The NDIS Commissioner and Senior Practitioner will take action when any of these practices are being used.
