Update on the development of new Practice Standards for SIL
We are in the process of developing new Practice Standards for supported independent living (SIL).
This work commenced in 2023 and has continued throughout 2024/25, and incorporates what we have heard from participants, providers, advocates, and technical experts in our consultation sessions, and the recommendations of the NDIS Review, the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of People with Disability (DRC), and the NDIS Provider and Worker Review Taskforce.
The new Practice Standards for SIL will focus on quality and safety in shared accommodation and with daily supports, while improving worker training requirements and changing the way SIL audits are conducted.
The development of the new SIL Practice Standards will be co-designed 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 delivered by workers who have the right training.
We have partnered with Inclusion Australia to co-design the new SIL Practice Standards. We are committed to upholding the rights of NDIS participants and ensuring participant voices are at the core of the new SIL Practice Standards.
For information on the work completed to date, please review the Regulation for in-home and housing supports Insights Report published in December 2024.