NDIS Positive Behaviour Support

Both. Maple writes and delivers your behaviour support plan. Our AHPRA-registered clinicians, approved by the NDIS Commission as behaviour support practitioners, write your plan. Our team then delivers it every day, trained by your clinician. We also handle the data recording and the restrictive practice reporting.

Yes. Maple is registered with the NDIS Commission to implement behaviour support plans, including regulated restrictive practices (Module 2A). We use authorised practices safely and report to the NDIS Commission every month, including months when a practice isn’t used. We also work actively to reduce them, whether our clinicians wrote your plan or another practitioner did. We welcome referrals from other providers. 

We acknowledge and match referrals within one hour during business hours and average five business days from referral to service commencement. Our 24/7 line means you are not waiting until Monday for an answer on capacity.

Yes. We deliver behaviour support in our own Supported Independent Living and Specialist Disability Accommodation homes and in homes run by others. One provider for the home and the plan means one team, one point of contact and no gap between the strategy and the everyday.

Yes. We deliver High Intensity Daily Personal Activities and complex care alongside behaviour support, so participants with both do not need two providers, two care plans and two sets of workers learning the same person twice.

NDIS behaviour support is a therapeutic support that looks at why behaviours of concern happen and builds positive strategies in response. It is funded through an NDIS plan, can only be delivered by providers with specialist skills in behaviour support, and aims to improve safety, relationships and everyday participation.

No. A formal diagnosis can help, but if you’re experiencing behaviours of concern and have NDIS funding, you may still qualify.

Only an NDIS behaviour support practitioner considered suitable by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, working through a provider registered for specialist behaviour support under registration group 0110. The practitioner completes a functional behaviour assessment first, then writes the plan with the participant and their support network.

An interim behaviour support plan must be developed within one month of engaging the specialist behaviour support provider where regulated restrictive practices are in place, so support can begin safely straight away. A comprehensive plan follows once the full functional behaviour assessment is complete and strategies have been tested.

The five regulated restrictive practices under NDIS rules are chemical restraint, environmental restraint, mechanical restraint, physical restraint and seclusion. Each must be documented in an authorised behaviour support plan and reported monthly to the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.

Behaviour support is funded from Capacity Building, most often under the Improved Relationships category. That budget covers the functional behaviour assessment, the plan, training for the people around you, and plan reviews.

You can request it at your next planning meeting, ask your Support Coordinator or Local Area Coordinator to request a plan reassessment, or lodge a change of circumstances if your situation has changed. Incident notes and reports linking the behaviours of concern to your goals make the strongest case.

No. Behaviour support is funded for participants of any age where behaviours of concern affect safety, relationships or participation in everyday life. The strategies differ by age and setting, and for children under nine a key worker usually joins the team.