All 26 self-assessment questions, listed.

This is the part of the NDIS application that stops people. Twenty-six boxes in the Commission’s portal, each asking how your service does one thing, in your words. Here is every one of them by name, so you can see the whole job before you decide how to do it.

22 from the Core Module · 4 from the SIL supplementary module that commenced 1 July 2026 · list current at 1 August 2026.

What a free self-rating tool gives you

25 indicator ratings

You read each SIL quality indicator, rate yourself met / partly met / no evidence, and get a summary. Useful, worth doing, and free in several places. It covers the four SIL standards only.

What the portal still wants from you

26 written answers

Ratings are not answers. The portal will not accept a score — it wants prose describing the arrangement. And the 22 Core Module questions are untouched by any SIL self-rating tool.

The trap most people fall into. The free tools in this market rate the four new SIL standards, because those are the ones everybody is talking about. But an existing provider is assessed on both the new SIL standards and the whole Core Module. Finishing a SIL self-rating worksheet feels like progress and is progress — on roughly 15% of the writing.

The 26, in the order the portal asks them

Nothing here is secret; the Practice Standards are public. We publish the list because you should be able to see the size of the job before anyone asks you for money.

Division 1 — Rights and Responsibilities

1Person-centred supportsHow do you ensure each participant accesses supports that respect their culture, diversity, values and beliefs?
2Individual values and beliefsHow are each participant's values, beliefs and cultural practices identified and respected?
3Privacy and dignityHow is each participant's right to privacy and dignity respected and protected?
4Independence and informed choiceHow are participants supported to make informed choices, exercise control and maximise their independence?
5Violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation and discriminationHow do you prevent, identify and respond to violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation and discrimination?

Division 2 — Provider Governance and Operational Management

6Governance and operational managementHow is your organisation governed, and how do you ensure it operates within its legal and financial obligations?
7Risk managementHow do you identify, manage and review risks to participants, workers and the organisation?
8Quality managementHow do you maintain and continuously improve the quality of supports?
9Information managementHow is participant information collected, stored, shared and destroyed securely?
10Feedback and complaints managementHow can participants give feedback or make a complaint, and how do you handle them?
11Incident managementHow do you identify, manage, report and learn from incidents?
12Human resource managementHow do you recruit, screen, train, supervise and support your workers?
13Continuity of supportsHow do you ensure participants continue to receive supports without interruption?

Division 3 — Provision of Supports

14Access to supportsHow do participants find out about, and gain access to, your supports?
15Support planningHow is each participant's support planned, documented and reviewed?
16Service agreements with participantsHow do you establish and maintain service agreements with participants?
17Responsive support provisionHow do you ensure supports are delivered as planned and respond to changing needs?
18Transitions to or from the providerHow are participants supported when they start with you, leave you, or move temporarily?

Division 4 — Support Provision Environment

19Safe environmentHow do you ensure the environment in which supports are delivered is safe and fit for purpose?
20Participant money and propertyHow do you protect participants' money and property?
21Management of medicationHow is medication stored, administered and recorded safely?
22Management of wasteHow are waste, including clinical and hazardous waste, managed safely?

SIL Supplementary Module (new, from 1 July 2026)

23Supported decision-makingNew 2026How do you support each participant to make their own decisions about their life and their home?
24Safety in the homeNew 2026How do you keep participants safe in a shared living environment?
25Workforce competence and consistencyNew 2026How do you ensure a consistent, competent workforce for each participant?
26Housing and support securityNew 2026How do you ensure a participant's home is secure and independent of their choice of support provider?

What a finished one looks like

Reading the question tells you what is being asked. It does not tell you what a good answer looks like, and that is where most people stall. So here is one, complete.

PDF Download one finished answer, in full Two pages, no email, no account. The answer, the evidence list that ships with it, and the failure mode auditors look for.

Three more are published in full at /kit, together with the opening lines of all 26 and the seven attachments the application asks for. All for a fictional provider, so you can judge the standard without buying anything.

Questions people ask at this point

What is the NDIS SIL self-assessment, exactly?

It is the largest part of the registration application: 26 boxes inside the NDIS Commission's application portal. Each box names one Practice Standard outcome and asks how your service delivers it. You write the answer in your own words, about your own houses, and you cannot lodge the application until all 26 are filled in. Twenty-two come from the Core Module and four from the SIL supplementary module that commenced on 1 July 2026.

I used a free self-assessment tool. Am I finished?

Almost certainly not. The free self-rating tools available in this market cover the four new SIL standards only — twenty-five quality indicators that you rate yourself as met, partly met or not evidenced. That is a useful gap analysis and it is worth doing. But it produces ratings, not answers, and it leaves the twenty-two Core Module questions — the larger part of the job — untouched. Rating an indicator and writing a 300-word answer to the portal are different tasks.

Can I just use a policy and procedure pack?

A policy pack is what an approved quality auditor reads at your Stage 1 desktop review, after you have lodged. It fills in none of the 26 boxes. The two are different purchases at different moments and you will most likely need both. We publish a full comparison of every Australian seller, with dated prices, at /vs.

How long should each answer be?

Under 300 words is the practical target. Longer answers are not better: the assessor is checking whether you have described a real working arrangement, and padding makes the missing detail more obvious, not less. Each of ours is written to that length from a 15-question intake about your service.

Which of the 26 changed on 1 July 2026?

Four are new: supported decision-making, safeguarding in shared living, practice governance for SIL, and the separation of tenancy from support. They are marked in the list above. They are also the four that any material written before mid-2026 gets wrong, including answers drafted by a general-purpose AI model trained before that date.

Can I see a finished answer before I buy anything?

Yes. One complete answer is published as a two-page PDF on this page, with no email and no account required, and three more are published in full at /kit alongside the opening lines of all 26. As far as we can establish, no other Australian seller in this market publishes a finished sample of their output.

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