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SIL registration: registration group 0138

Assistance with supported independent living is registration group 0138. It needs a certification audit against Core module and Module 5A. Registration is mandatory from 1 July 2026.

Key facts

Audit type
Certification
Practice Standards modules
  • Core module
  • Module 5A: Assistance with supported independent living
Registration mandatory from
Support Catalogue categories (2026–27)
Assistance with Daily Life (Includes SIL)

How this group is assessed

  • Registration group 0115 does not cover SIL. The Rules describe 0115 as assistance with daily life tasks in a group or shared living arrangement “(other than assistance with supported independent living)”, so SIL needs 0138.

    Source: NDIS (Provider Registration and Practice Standards) Rules 2018, s20(3) item 15

When you need to register

Each heading is our short summary. The quote underneath is the official wording it's based on.

  • Must register

    You provide assistance with supported independent living (SIL), including as a sole trader

    “A person must be registered under section 73E of the Act to provide assistance with supported independent living to a participant.” (Provider Registration Rules s7(4)). “A person provides assistance with supported independent living to a participant if: (a) the participant requires constant, or immediately available, person‑to‑person supports at all times during a day, or for a substantial portion of a day; and (b) the assistance is provided, as needed, as a package of supports to assist the participant with, or to supervise, the tasks of daily life that enable the participant: (i) to live as autonomously as possible in the participant’s home; and (ii) to access the community; and (c) the assistance includes the management by the person of the package of supports, and of the supports provided in accordance with the package.” (s7(5)). Class of supports 0138 is assessed against “Schedules 1 and 7A” by “certification” (s20(3) item 38); item 15 (0115) now reads “other than assistance with supported independent living”.

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  • Must register

    You are a sole trader delivering, managing and coordinating a participant's supports that meet the SIL definition

    “If you are a sole trader delivering, managing and coordinating a participant's supports that meet the definition of supported independent living, you are considered a supported independent living provider.” (NDIS Commission, Mandatory registration: supported independent living, FAQ)

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  • Depends on your situation

    Your support is only a few hours a day or week, or the participant chooses and manages their own support workers

    “It is not considered Supported Independent Living (SIL) when: a person only receives a few hours of support each day or week; or a person chooses and manages their own support workers, including directing, planning, and rostering their own supports.” and “A provider may not need to be registered for SIL if the support they deliver is not considered SIL based on the definition. However, the provider must register if they are delivering other supports that can only be delivered by registered providers.” (NDIS Commission, Mandatory registration: supported independent living)

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  • Depends on your situation

    You are already a registered provider delivering SIL under registration group 0115

    For an existing registered NDIS provider, the SIL amendments apply “on or after the day (the transition day) on which the Commissioner makes a decision under subsection 73L(1) of the Act whether to vary the provider’s registration to include the specified class of support” (Provider Registration Rules s32(2)(a)). Until then, a provider registered for item 15 (0115) “must comply with Schedule 7A … as if those standards were specified for the class of support specified in that item” (s32(3)). The Commission says these providers' registration “will be varied to include a new registration group '0138 Assistance with supported independent living'” and they are audited against the SIL Practice Standards “as part of their next audit (mid-term or registration renewal) after 1 July 2026.” (NDIS Commission, SIL transition pathway for registered providers with 0115)

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  • Depends on your situation

    You were an unregistered provider already delivering SIL before 1 July 2026

    For an existing unregistered provider that had provided SIL before 1 July 2026, the registration requirement applies on or after: “(i) in the case that the provider makes an application, before 1 October 2026, under subsection 73C(1) of the Act to be registered to provide the specified class of support—the day on which the Commissioner makes a decision under subsection 73E(1) of the Act on the application; or (ii) otherwise—1 October 2026” (Provider Registration Rules s32(2)(b)). The Commission adds: “If you are currently delivering supported independent living (SIL) and chose not to apply for registration, you will need to stop providing supported independent living supports.” and “If you deliver supported independent living on or after 1 July 2026 without being registered, you may breach the NDIS Act. The maximum penalty is 2 years’ imprisonment, a fine of 120 penalty units, or both.” (Mandatory registration: supported independent living, FAQ)

    Applies from · Official source

  • Must register

    You are not yet delivering SIL and want to start

    “Providers cannot deliver supported independent living (SIL) supports until we've made a decision on the application for registration.” (NDIS Commission, SIL transition pathway for new or unregistered providers applying after 1 July 2026). For any provider not covered by the transitional arrangements, the requirement applies “on or after 1 July 2026” (Provider Registration Rules s32(2)(c)).

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Practice Standards you'll be audited against

The Core module applies to many registration groups, so its outcomes are listed by title here; the official text is on the NDIS Commission's pages, and you can work through every outcome in the self-assessment. The module specific to this group is shown in full: open an outcome to see its official quality indicators.

Core module (24 outcomes)

Rights and responsibilities

  • Person-centred supports
  • Individual values and beliefs
  • Privacy and dignity
  • Independence and informed choice
  • Violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation and discrimination

Official outcomes and indicators: Core module, Rights and responsibilities

Provider governance and operational management

  • Governance and operational management
  • Risk management
  • Quality management
  • Information management
  • Feedback and complaints management
  • Incident management
  • Human resource management
  • Continuity of supports
  • Emergency and disaster management

Official outcomes and indicators: Core module, Provider governance and operational management

Provision of supports

  • Access to supports
  • Support planning
  • Service agreements with participants
  • Responsive support provision
  • Transitions to or from a provider

Official outcomes and indicators: Core module, Provision of supports

Provision of supports environment

  • Safe environment
  • Participant money and property
  • Management of medication
  • Mealtime management
  • Management of waste

Official outcomes and indicators: Core module, Provision of supports environment

Self-assess against the standards for 0138

Module 5A: Assistance with supported independent living (4 outcomes)

  • Supported Decision-Making Standard

    Outcome: Each participant is supported to understand and make genuine decisions for themselves. Each participant is provided with accessible information, and decision-making support, about: (a) the supports and services delivered in their home; and (b) the supports and services delivered to enable them to access their community.

    Quality indicators

    • Each participant is provided with information to help them communicate their will and preferences about the delivery of supports and services in their home and daily life. This information is provided using the language, mode of communication and terms that the participant is most likely to understand.
    • Each participant’s right to the dignity of risk in decision-making about the delivery of supports and services in their home and daily life is supported. When needed, each participant is supported to make informed choices about the benefits and risks of the options under consideration about their home and daily life.
    • Each participant is supported to make informed decisions about access to mainstream supports and services outside of their home.
    • Policies and procedures are in place to facilitate supported decision-making by workers. The policies and procedures should require workers, when facilitating supported decision-making about the delivery of supports and services in a participant’s home and daily life, to: a. provide a reasonable period to implement supported decision-making; b. identify the circumstances in which supported decision-making may be required; c. seek participant views on whether decision-making support is required and how they would like to be supported; d. identify and provide the necessary decision-making support in accordance with the participant’s will and preferences; e. consider and respond to cultural values and beliefs when decision-making support is required; and f. identify when additional support may be required for day-to-day decision-making including by an authorised decision maker such as a nominee.
    • Relevant workers are trained, and have refresher training, in supported decision-making, including how to support the development of the participant’s ability to make decisions about the delivery of supports and services in a participant’s home and daily life and understand the impact of their decisions.
  • Safeguarding Standard

    Outcome: Each participant is supported to live in a safe, respectful and supportive home environment. Each participant is supported to have adequate safeguards in place to mitigate harm at home and when participants access their community.

    Quality indicators

    • Relevant workers demonstrate compliance with their obligations under the NDIS Code of Conduct through respectful, safe and rights-based support in a participant’s home in the delivery of supports and services.
    • Policies and procedures are in place to balance and respect participants’ dignity of risk in decision-making about the delivery of supports and services in their home and daily life while upholding obligations to safety in the home and when accessing their community. This includes involving participants in safeguarding discussions and ensuring safeguarding approaches are understood and applied consistently by all workers in the participant’s home.
    • Relevant workers delivering supports and services in a participant’s home and daily life have the skills to identify, assess and respond to harm, bullying and conflict in the participant’s home or when in the community, in a timely manner. This includes ensuring workers are trained in de-escalation, trauma-informed practice and positive behaviour support.
    • Each participant is supported to strengthen their formal and informal safeguards by being supported through the design and delivery of their supports and services to maintain access to their family, friends and community and through building stable and consistent relationships with workers who deliver supports and services in the participant’s home and daily life.
    • Each participant is supported to understand the impact of their decisions about the delivery of supports and services in their home and daily life if there is risk associated with their choices about their home and access to their community.
    • Policies and procedures are in place that set out the responsibilities of relevant workers delivering supports and services in the participant’s home and daily life in identifying, assessing and responding to risks such as bullying and conflict in the home environment. This includes requiring workers to collaborate with relevant providers and specialists to manage and mitigate risks in a person-centred and consistent manner to safeguard the participant and others living in the participant’s home.
    • Safeguarding approaches are implemented to address conflict, intimidation and harm between participants. This includes providers consulting with participants to ensure the safeguarding approaches acknowledge the risk and safety unique to each person, while respecting their autonomy.
    • Safeguarding approaches are regularly reviewed with participants and adjustments are made to promote continuous quality improvement through day-to-day practice improvements in the participant’s home, worker learning, supervision and governance.
  • Practice Governance Standard

    Outcome: Each participant is supported in their home by workers that have the necessary training, knowledge and skills to support them. Each participant is supported by workers that have the knowledge of, and guidance to use, evidence-informed practices that: (a) are tailored to the participant’s needs; and (b) enable the provision of safe and high quality supports.

    Quality indicators

    • Policies and procedures are in place for planning, delivery and evaluation of worker development and training, ensuring workers have skills and competency to deliver supports and services to participants in their home. This includes appropriate mentoring, supervision and training for workers in relation to cultural safety and positive behaviour support.
    • Each participant is supported in a positive, comfortable and safe home environment by implementing trauma-informed practices in the delivery of supports and services in a participant’s home and daily life.
    • Workers are trained and assessed as competent in evidence-based practices including person-centred and trauma-informed practices, active support and supported decision-making, to create a participant centred and safe environment for the delivery of supports and services in a participant’s home and daily life.
    • Policies and procedures are in place that document a vision, values, objectives and strategies for the delivery of supports and services in the home that reflects contemporary practice and prioritises participants’ rights, safety and wellbeing in the participant’s home.
    • Each participant is provided the opportunity and encouraged to participate in and make decisions about their home including who they live with. This includes consultation with impacted participants before placing new tenants in the home and ensuring that participants are matched with co-tenants that they feel safe to live with.
    • Appropriate governance oversight of emergency planning is in place in shared living. All impacted participants are consulted to ensure emergency arrangements are coordinated, rehearsed and tailored to individual needs to ensure participants can respond safely to emergencies.
  • Agreements about tenancy, housing and support arrangements

    Outcome: Each participant who has a tenancy agreement with the provider is supported to understand how the terms and conditions of the tenancy agreement interact with their service agreement with the provider. Each such participant is supported by effective tenancy management and is able to exercise choice and control and their tenancy rights.

    Quality indicators

    • Where a provider is delivering both assistance with supported independent living and tenancy to the same participant, there are separate service and tenancy agreements.
    • Each participant who is receiving both assistance with supported independent living and tenancy from the same provider is supported to understand the distinction between their service agreement and tenancy agreement, including that they are legally separate and that one is not contingent on the other. This includes requiring workers to refer participants to access independent advocacy or legal assistance to understand their rights and responsibilities.
    • Policies and procedures are in place that detail how perceived or actual conflicts of interests are identified and managed by a provider that is delivering both assistance with supported independent living and tenancy to the same participant. The conflict of interest policies are made available to participants in the language, mode of communication and terms which each participant is most likely to understand.
    • Policies and procedures are in place to ensure participants can raise concerns about their supports and tenancy management without fear of retribution. This includes requiring workers to assist participants to access advocacy and/or legal services where appropriate.
    • Each participant who is receiving both assistance with supported independent living and tenancy from the same provider is supported in their tenancy: a. By the provider providing accessible information and support to ensure the participant understands their rights and responsibilities under relevant tenancy law. This includes information about their house-sharing arrangements, notice periods and exit processes. b. By the provider providing, when required by the participant, more detailed assistance to understand their rights and responsibilities, including to access advocacy and/or legal services. c. To understand their rights to change, in whole or in part, the provider who delivers assistance with supported independent living at any time during the tenancy agreement, and there are appropriate participant centred arrangements to facilitate this. d. To be involved in decisions about their home environment including how shared spaces should be used. e. To have access to house keys and to have private spaces that are managed in accordance with their preferences and subject to paragraph (f). This includes ensuring participants have the right to control who enters their private space. f. By not having any limits applied to their access or possessions, unless there is a behaviour support plan in place for the participant. Any limits to access or possessions are applied in the least restrictive way possible and in accordance with their behaviour support plan. g. By the provider maintaining ongoing compliance with all relevant laws and standards, including building standards and tenancy laws that apply to disability accommodation. h. To understand their tenancy agreement, including any conditions, by using the language, mode of communication and terms which that participant is most likely to understand. i. To have a copy of their agreement as signed by the participant and the provider. Where this is not practicable, a record is made detailing the circumstances in which the participant did not receive a copy of their agreement.
    • Each participant is supported to have a written service agreement in place that set out the following matters: a. How a participant’s concerns about their home will be communicated and addressed; b. How potential conflicts involving co-tenants will be managed; c. How changes to participant circumstances and/or support needs will be agreed and communicated; d. How vacancies will be filled, including each participant’s right to have their needs, preferences and situation taken into account; e. How behaviours of concern, which may put tenancies at risk will be managed, if this is a relevant issue for the participant; and f. How participants can have visitors in their home, including how participants will be supported to exercise this choice safely without unnecessary restrictions.

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