NDIS Restrictive Practices Training

NDIS restrictive practices training is often treated as being about extreme intervention. The more common problem is practices nobody recognises as restrictive.

Locking a cupboard or a fridge. Withholding an item until a task is done. Keeping a door closed so somebody cannot leave a room. Routinely giving medication to manage behaviour. Each can be a restrictive practice.

Under the NDIS framework, regulated restrictive practices generally require authorisation in accordance with state or territory requirements, must be set out in a behaviour support plan, and use is reportable to the Commission.

What that means for training is recognition first, before process. A worker who cannot identify a restrictive practice when they are using one cannot follow any of the process that surrounds it.

The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission publishes the requirements. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

See Sentrient’s restrictive practices training and positive behaviour support training.