Practical compliance, registration and audit guidance for NDIS providers, written by experts.
Authorisation for a regulated restrictive practice comes from the state or territory where the participant lives, not from the NDIS Commission. The Commission regulates behaviour support and you must report RP use to them, but it does not authorise restrictive practices. This role sits with each state and territory, and each one runs it differently. [...]
The SIL Practice Standards now apply to providers of Supported Independent Living, and completing a thorough self-assessment is a good initial preparation step. In short, you work through each quality indicator under the four standards, summarise the evidence you already have, rate how well you meet it, and identify (if anything) what else you need. [...]
NDIS registration is optional for dietitians delivering therapeutic supports (as of June 2026), and you can work with self-managed and plan-managed participants without it. Registration lets you take on agency-managed participants, who can only use registered providers, and it demonstrates that your practice meets the NDIS Practice Standards. Dietitians register under the registration goup 0128 [...]
The rules for how many participants an auditor reviews, how many workers they interview, and how long your audit runs are set out in Annex B of the NDIS (Approved Quality Auditors Scheme) Guidelines 2018, a legislative instrument that approved quality auditors are required to follow. This article covers participant sampling, worker sampling, site attendance, [...]
The NDIS Commission has published the SIL Practice Standards that registered SIL providers are now required to be audited against. There are four outcomes included: Supported Decision-Making, Safeguarding, Practice Governance, and Agreements about tenancy, housing and support arrangements. In your audit, the evidence generally comes from four places: your documents, your records, what an auditor [...]
This article breaks down the realistic costs for a small SIL provider registering for the first time, including the audit, insurance, worker screening, documentation, and ongoing costs after registration. For more information about mandatory registration for SIL providers, see here. At a glance For a small SIL provider (one or two homes, a handful of [...]
The NDIS Commission has published its official definition of SIL (Supported Independent Living), including what is and what is not included. Not every provider currently claiming under registration group 0115 will necessarily be delivering SIL under the new definition. This article walks through the definition, what’s included, what’s excluded, and where the boundaries aren’t yet [...]
If you’ve been reading any NDIS news over the past month, you’ll know that a lot has been announced, including Thriving Kids, changes to eligibility, participant budgets, planning processes, fraud enforcement, and more. This article focuses specifically on what’s changing for provider registration: what’s been announced, what’s confirmed, and what we’re still waiting on. In [...]
If you’re a registered NDIS provider on the Certification pathway, your three-year registration period includes a mid-term audit. This article covers what gets assessed and when to expect it. Who Has to Have One Mid-term audits apply to registered NDIS providers on the Certification pathway. If you completed a Verification audit for your initial registration, [...]
This guide walks through all 38 NDIS registration groups, explains what each one covers, and tells you whether it triggers a Verification or Certification audit. Updated June 2026 to include the new registration groups 0137 (Providing a NDIS digital platform service) and 0138 (Assistance with Supported Independent Living), effective 1 July 2026. What Is an [...]
