Match Victorian restrictive-practice records to the authorisation
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Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- From the use records, the authorisations and the reports the lawyer has selected, match each use to an authorisation for the same person, practice and period. List uses with no matching authorisation. Do not decide that a use was a reportable incident.
- What the lawyer must review
- Match each use to the same person, practice and period
- Do not decide that an unmatched use is a reportable incident
- Keep NDIS authorisation separate from the state-funded path
- Health records stay in the firm tool
- Written for / version
- Victoria versionVICUS
Rules that apply
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The work product
Forum. Victoria. Use records matched to a Senior Practitioner authorisation under the Disability Act 2006.
Produce. A match of each use to an authorisation, and a list of uses with no match.
Have ready. Use records; Authorisations; Reports the lawyer has selected.
Example of the limit. Illustrative example: Three use entries are matched to an authorisation for the same person and period. A fourth entry has no authorisation. It is listed and not classified. The lawyer decides what the list means.
Stop and hand it back when
- The use record does not identify the person or the practice.
- The tool has labelled an unmatched use as a reportable incident.
Sources for this task were checked on 2026-10-23.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | From the use records, the authorisations and the reports the lawyer has selected, match each use to an authorisation for the same person, practice and period. List uses with no matching authorisation. Do not decide that a use was a reportable incident. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- An authorisation relied on for a registered NDIS provider is a written order of the Senior Practitioner under section 27(2)(g), or the approval the Senior Practitioner's page describes for that practice.
- Do not match seclusion, mechanical restraint or physical restraint to an authorisation that the record limits to chemical or environmental restraint.
- For an NDIS behaviour support plan, the Senior Practitioner authorises the regulated restrictive practice. The state-funded path, where an authorised program officer lodges the plan, is a different path.
- List a use that has no matching authorisation. Do not classify it as lawful or as a reportable incident.
Sources
- Victorian Senior Practitioner: responsibilities · 2026-10-23
- Disability Act 2006 (Vic), section 27 · 2026-10-23
Section 27(5) requires written advice to the person or NDIS participant of an authorisation as soon as practicable. The directions sections cited on the Senior Practitioner page were not opened.
The tool writes nothing on a report to the Commission or to the Senior Practitioner.