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Supported Independent Living
Still unregistered for SIL?
If you help people with everyday tasks in their home, you are probably delivering Supported Independent Living. The NDIS Commission treats SIL as higher risk.
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Urgent:
A SIL registration deadline may apply to you
The NDIS Commission has signalled that providers delivering Supported Independent Living are required to become registered, with a transition period for existing providers. Because you are already delivering SIL and have not submitted an application, this appears to apply to you. Check the Commission's current transition timeline and treat your application as a priority.
Source: NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission — provider registration(opens in a new tab)
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Plain English
What SIL actually is
Supported Independent Living, or SIL, is help with the everyday tasks of living in a home.
SIL is funded support for daily life at home. It usually means rostered workers helping with personal care, cooking, cleaning, medication, money, appointments and getting out.
It is often delivered in a shared home with two or three residents, and often overnight or around the clock. It can also be for one person living alone.
SIL is about the support, not the building. The house itself is a separate arrangement, usually called Specialist Disability Accommodation.
If you roster workers into someone's home to help them live there, check whether SIL applies to you.
Signs SIL may apply to you
- You roster workers into a participant's home on a regular pattern.
- You support two or more people who share a home.
- You provide overnight, sleepover or active night support.
- You help with daily tasks like personal care, meals and medication.
- A participant's plan has funding called Supported Independent Living.
The standards
What the SIL Practice Standards cover
The NDIS Practice Standards are the national rules for safe, quality supports. SIL providers are also measured against the SIL module.
Supported decision-making
People make their own choices about their home, routine, money and day. You record and respect them.
Safeguarding
You can show how people are kept safe: risks, incidents, medication, and what happens when something goes wrong.
Practice governance
Someone is clearly responsible for quality: rostering, supervision, skills, and checking that support matches the plan.
Right now
Delivering SIL and not registered? Do this.
One step at a time. Order matters more than speed.
Confirm SIL really applies to you
Take the free check. It asks about what you deliver and shows the modules that seem to apply.
Check the Commission's current rules and timing
Requirements change. Confirm the current position on the Commission's website before planning around a date.
Start your application in the Applications Portal
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Get your documents in order
Policies, forms and registers that match how your homes actually run, including overnight support and medication.
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