Visitors, Access, Keys and Private Space Procedure

A visitors, access, keys and private space procedure for supported independent living. It sets out how participants control their own space, hold keys, decide who enters and have visitors. It also marks where a household arrangement ends and a restrictive practice begins.

What is inside:

• Definitions of private space, shared area, restrictive practice and regulated restrictive practice
• Keys and access, including alternatives and recording which workers hold keys
• Private space: knocking, locked doors with emergency access, entry without consent and no searches
• Belongings and limits on possessions
• Visitors, including overnight visitors, shared area arrangements and responding to a visitor who presents a risk
• A three-question test for whether a limit is a regulated restrictive practice
• Six-step procedure for any proposed limit, and the records that evidence it

Good to know: any regulated restrictive practice must be in the participant's behaviour support plan. It must also be authorised under the law of their state or territory.

• Reviewed against the current NDIS Rules, Practice Standards and Commission guidance
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