About NDIS Practice Standards Reform
The NDIS Practice Standards set out the quality and safety standards that registered NDIS providers must meet when delivering supports to NDIS participants. These standards help ensure that participants can engage with providers to shape the way that quality and safe supports are delivered.
The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (NDIS Commission) is progressing the following projects to improve the practice standards and better support providers and workers to deliver high-quality supports for NDIS participants.
- Developing and testing new Supported Independent Living (SIL) Practice Standards
- NDIS Practice Standards Review
These projects are the next steps that the NDIS Commission is taking to progress the recommendations and insights from the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of People with Disability (DRC), NDIS Review and the NDIS Commission’s own consultations and Own Motion Inquiries into Supported Accommodation. This work will provide comprehensive insights, evidence and documents for the NDIS Commission to consider when making future decisions about NDIS regulatory policy.
Developing and testing of new SIL Practice Standards
The NDIS Commission is developing and testing new SIL Practice Standards.
This work incorporates what we have heard from participants, providers, advocates, and technical experts in our consultation sessions, and the recommendations of the NDIS Review, the DRC, and the Own Motion Inquiry into Aspects of Supported Accommodation.
The new SIL Practice Standards will focus on quality and safety in shared accommodation with daily supports, as well as improving guidance for frontline workers.
The development of the new SIL Practice Standards will be informed by co-design with people with disability and amplify the voices of SIL participants to ensure SIL supports are participant-centred, focused on human rights, respectful, understanding of privacy concerns and high-quality.
The NDIS Commission has partnered with Inclusion Australia to co-design the new SIL Practice Standards. Ensuring participant voices are at the core of the new standard is a priority for this work.
NDIS Practice Standards Review
The NDIS Commission is undertaking a review of the NDIS Practice Standards.
The NDIS Practice Standards Review aims to understand what changes are required to ensure workers and providers’ obligations are appropriate, focus on the right things, and are supported by good guidance that makes it clear how to deliver high-quality, safe and participant-centred supports. The NDIS Practice Standards Review will also seek feedback on whether developing a NDIS Quality Framework (Quality Framework) will support these objectives.
We have engaged KPMG to support the NDIS Practice Standard Review which will include leading a national consultation process to engage with people with disability and their supporters, providers, disability representative organisations, peak bodies, auditors and the broader sector.
Public consultation opened Monday 20 October.
How you can get involved
- Register now to participate in a consultation session: KPMG will be running a number of consultation sessions. Sessions are filling up quickly. Register for a consultation session.
- Complete the survey Participant Survey | Provider and Sector Survey. The survey will close COB Thursday 13th November.
- Read the discussion paper: Standard | Easy Read
- Submit your ideas in writing: Submissions open Monday 20th October 2025. Email your submission to consultation@ndiscommission.gov.au.
- Submit your ideas in audio or video recording or drawing: Email consultation@ndiscommission.gov.au for a dedicated link with instructions on how to securely upload a video recording, audio or visual.