What is Behaviour support plan?

Who writes and who implements

A comprehensive plan is developed by a registered specialist behaviour support provider using an NDIS behaviour support practitioner, a person the NDIS Commissioner has found suitable to do behaviour support assessments and write plans that may include restrictive practices. The practitioner lodges the plan with the NDIS Commission through its portal.

The implementing provider is the provider whose workers carry out the plan day to day, such as a supported independent living or community access provider. Implementing providers must follow the plan, train workers in it, and report on any regulated restrictive practices it contains.

Timeframes

If a regulated restrictive practice will be used on an ongoing basis, the implementing provider must engage a specialist behaviour support provider, and the plans are due:

1. Interim behaviour support plan: within one month of the practice first being used
2. Comprehensive behaviour support plan: within six months of the practice first being used
3. Review: at least every 12 months while the plan includes regulated restrictive practices, or sooner if the person's situation changes

The review date should be stated in the plan.

What the implementing provider must keep

• A current copy of the plan, available to every worker who supports the person
• Records that workers have been trained in the plan's strategies
• A record of each use of a regulated restrictive practice, for monthly reporting
• Observations and data the practitioner needs at review

Using a restrictive practice that is not in the plan, or using it differently from the plan, is an unauthorised use and a reportable incident.

How Rostery helps

Rostery stores each participant's behaviour support plan and its restrictive practices on their record, shows workers the plan before a shift, and logs each use of a practice for monthly reporting.