Articles and Insights
New Supported Independent Living (SIL) Practice Standards: What Providers Need to Focus on Now
With new Supported Independent Living (SIL) Practice Standards in place from 1 July 2026, the focus now shifts from mandatory registration to implementation - ensuring governance, systems and day-to-day practice reflect expectations. This article explores key factors such as choice, control and safeguarding, and suggests priorities for providers based on our experience supporting the sector.
What being prepared for an NDIS Audit actually looks like
What does “being audit ready” actually look like for NDIS providers? This key question comes up often in our conversations with partners, clients and sector stakeholders. In this article we draw on our experience working with providers and supporting sector development to offer five key insights, including a key question that may promote a complete mindset shift from compliance to everyday practices.
Mandatory NDIS Registration - What does it mean to be Audit Ready?
With mandatory registration coming for NDIS providers, we ask - is your organisation audit ready? In this second article in our series for NDIS providers, we explore this significant shift for the disability sector. We outline the readiness gaps we continue to see and uncover the single biggest mistake that organisations can make in our experience. We also discuss the opportunity that mandatory registration brings.
Special Series on NDIS Quality and Safeguards: Quality Beyond Compliance
In this first in a series of articles for NDIS providers, we explore what quality is really about. With NDIS reforms, such as mandatory registration, continuing to increase quality and safeguarding expectations, this capability is becoming increasingly important for providers. Conversations about quality often begin with compliance. Standards, Audits, policies, regulations and reporting requirements are the mechanisms organisations are most familiar with, and often the things that receive the greatest attention. Yet they are not the reason quality matters.