What evidence does an auditor or the regulator ask for under Restrictive Practices Rules s 20(3)?

Plan section setting reduction and elimination goals for each practice; Consultation notes with the participant, family or guardian and implementing provider; Record of prior assessments reviewed and environmental changes recommended

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Requirement

Reduce the need for restrictive practices and consult widely

NDIS Restrictive Practices and Behaviour Support Rules s 20(3), stated plainly and cited to the edition held, with the evidence an auditor or the regulator asks for, the common gaps, and a free worksheet to fill in.

Clause

Restrictive Practices Rules s 20(3)

Regulator

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission

Edition held

NDIS (Restrictive Practices and Behaviour Support) Rules 2018, Compilation No. 1 (F2020C01087), in force 1 December 2020

Checked current

6 October 2026, Federal Register: latest version on 6 October 2026

Who it applies to

Registered providers of specialist behaviour support, and providers whose supports involve a regulated restrictive practice.

Every clause in the standards library

NDIS Restrictive Practices and Behaviour Support Rules on the standards library

s 20(3)Reduce the need for restrictive practices and consult widelysource

Requirement, our statement of the clause

In developing and reviewing a plan, the specialist behaviour support provider must take all reasonable steps to reduce and eliminate the need for regulated restrictive practices, take account of previous behaviour support and other assessments, make changes to the person's environment that may reduce or remove the need, and consult the person, their family, carers, guardian or other relevant person, the provider who may use the practice, and other relevant specialists.

Evidence that typically shows this

Plan section setting reduction and elimination goals for each practice
Consultation notes with the participant, family or guardian and implementing provider
Record of prior assessments reviewed and environmental changes recommended

Common gap to check

Plan carries the same practices unchanged from one review to the next
Participant not consulted

Worksheet: what your practice holds, and where

Ref	Held (yes, partly, no, not applicable)	Where it is kept	Owner	Last reviewed	Next review
s 20(3)

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Completing this worksheet records what your practice holds and where. It does not make a practice compliant or ready for audit, and it is not legal advice.

Related requirements

NDIS Restrictive Practices and Behaviour Support Rules

The same topic in other instruments (behaviour support)

NDIS Practice Standards Module 2 3.1 to Module 2 3.5Module 2: Behaviour support in the NDIS
NDIS Practice Standards Module 2 4.1 to Module 2 4.8Module 2: Restrictive practices
NDIS Practice Standards Module 2 5.1 to Module 2 5.6Module 2: Assessments and plans
NDIS Practice Standards Module 2 6.1 to Module 2 6.7Module 2: Supporting implementation
Children guidance P-6Positive behaviour support for children, never harmful practices

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