NDIS Compliance Guides

Plain-English guides to the rules NDIS providers and independent support workers work under, grouped by topic. Each guide is general information, not legal advice. Check the current official source before you rely on a requirement.

• Registration and audits
• Supported independent living (SIL)
• Incidents, complaints and safeguarding
• Pricing, claiming and funding
• Records, employment and practice
• Updates

Registration and audits

• How to become a registered NDIS provider

  The registration process step by step, from choosing registration groups to the audit.

• The NDIS verification audit

  What a verification audit checks, and how sole traders and small providers prepare for it.

• Core Module self-assessment

  Checking your evidence against the Core Module before a certification audit.

• NDIS policies and procedures

  Which policies and procedures providers need, and which they do not.

• High intensity supports and registration

  When high intensity daily personal activities need registration, and how the skills descriptors fit in.

• Becoming an independent support worker

  Working as a sole trader support worker: screening, insurance and registration choices.

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Supported independent living (SIL)

• SIL mandatory registration

  What mandatory SIL registration means for providers, and the deadlines that applied.

• What is Module 5A?

  The SIL supplementary module of the NDIS Practice Standards explained.

• SIL service agreements

  What a SIL service agreement has to contain from 1 July 2026.

• Is a roster of care required?

  What the NDIA actually says about completing and submitting a SIL roster of care.

Incidents, complaints and safeguarding

• Reportable incidents

  Which incidents are reportable, and the 24 hour and 5 business day timeframes.

• Complaints management

  What the Rules require of a provider’s complaints management system.

• The NDIS Code of Conduct

  The seven obligations of the Code in day-to-day practice.

• NDIS Worker Screening Check

  Who needs a clearance and how to apply for one.

• Restrictive practice authorisation

  How regulated restrictive practices are authorised in each state and territory.

• Implementing a behaviour support plan

  What an implementing provider must do once a behaviour support plan is in place.

Pricing, claiming and funding

• NDIS price limits 2026-27

  What the pricing determination changed, and who the price limits bind.

• The 90 day claim rule

  The claim time limit that applies from December 2026.

• Support budget reductions

  What providers need to do about support budget reductions from 1 October 2026.

Records, employment and practice

• Record retention

  How long NDIS providers have to keep records.

• SCHADS award changes

  What NDIS employers need to check for the changes from 1 December 2026.

• Six rights of medication administration

  The six rights for disability support workers who give or assist with medication.

Updates

• Document Change Log

  Every changed template, with its new version number and the reason for the change.

• PRODA access to the NDIS Commission portals

  The move from PRODA to myID and RAM from 30 September 2026.

• SIL Supplementary Module released

  What is in the SIL module templates and how they map to Module 5A.

• NDIS document updates

  What changed in the July 2026 full-library review.

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