NDIS Practice Standards Gap Analysis
This free tool walks you through each of the quality indicators that apply to your service and presents a checklist of documents and other evidence you'll need to meet the requirements of an NDIS certification audit.
Every module in the NDIS Practice Standards is covered, from the Core Module through to Module 5A. Tick what you have in place already, and download a report setting out what you still need. Nothing you tick leaves your browser.
Time to complete: ~1 hour
No account required • Your answers never leave your browser • Instant download
Who this is for
This tool is designed for NDIS providers on the certification pathway. Whether you're registering for the first time, preparing for a mid-term or recertification audit, or just want to know where you stand before you start spending money on it.
You choose the modules that apply to your registration, and only those are included in your checklist and your report. We don't tell you which ones you need: that comes from the registration groups on your application or your certificate of registration.
If you're preparing for a Verification audit, this doesn't include your requirements. Verification providers are assessed against a much shorter set of standards, and our free Verification Toolkit is the better place to start.
Every module in the NDIS Practice Standards is covered
- Core Module. Rights and responsibilities, provider governance and operational management, the provision of supports, and the support environment.
- Module 1: High Intensity Daily Personal Activities. Complex bowel care, enteral feeding, dysphagia, ventilation, tracheostomy care, urinary catheters, subcutaneous injections and complex wound management.
- Module 2: Specialist Behaviour Support. For behaviour support practitioners: functional behaviour assessments, behaviour support plans, interim plans and plan reviews.
- Module 2A: Implementing Behaviour Support Plans. For providers using regulated restrictive practices under a behaviour support plan somebody else wrote.
- Module 3: Early Childhood Supports. Early childhood intervention delivered with families, in the child's everyday routines and settings.
- Module 4: Specialised Support Coordination. Coordinating supports for participants whose situation is high risk or complex.
- Module 5: Specialist Disability Accommodation. SDA dwellings: enrolment and design category, service agreements, and tenancy management.
- Module 5A: Supported Independent Living. SIL: supported decision-making, safeguarding, practice governance, and tenancy and housing arrangements.
When you finish, you'll download a Word report containing:
- Evidence you still need, grouped by outcome
- A record of the evidence you confirmed you hold, in the same order
- Anything you marked not applicable
- Your own brand colour on the headings, if you want it
How it works
You tell us which modules apply to you, then work through them a section at a time. Each checklist item lists a policy, a register, a record, or a training log, which will help you meet that specific outcome. Where one document covers more than one outcome, you tick it once.
Your progress saves in your browser as you go and is kept for 30 days, including after you download. You might do this over more than one sitting, and you can download the report part-finished at any point. Nothing you enter is sent to us or stored on our server.
What this tool does not do
It asks whether you hold something, but it doesn't tell you whether what you have in place is sufficient, and ticking everything doesn't guarantee you'll pass your audit.
Auditors look for evidence that your processes are being implemented day-to-day, such as training records, decisions being made, and things changing as a result.
This is preparation support, not an audit and not advice. It is not produced or endorsed by the NDIS. Only an approved quality auditor can audit your service and recommend registration.