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EC PEC – Capacity building –

Regulated restrictive practices SGP KP Publishing

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Table of Contents

1 Recent updates …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4

2 Before you start …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 5

3 Behaviour support through Early Intervention Supports for Early Childhood …………. 6

4 Behaviour supports through Specialist Behavioural Intervention Support ……………… 7

5 Mandatory referral to Technical Advice and Practice Improvement Branch (TAPIB) .. 8

6 Are regulated restrictive practices in use (or likely to be in use)? …………………………… 9

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When we say, early childhood intervention supports, we mean Early Intervention Supports for Early Childhood which is an NDIS support (external) we fund in NDIS plans for children younger than 9.

This article provides guidance for early childhood partners and planner delegates on:

how to complete capacity building questions relating to regulated restrictive practices in the Personal and Environmental Circumstances (PEC) case
behaviour support through Early Intervention Supports for Early Childhood (early childhood intervention)
behaviour support through Specialist Behavioural Intervention Support
PEC examples for regulated restrictive practices.

Careful consideration should be made when completing the PEC case to best reflect the participant and their family’s actual circumstances and NDIS funded support needs. The PEC case is used to inform the Typical Support Package (TSP) and planner delegate reasonable and necessary decision making.

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1 Recent updates

1 September 2025

Article and intranet links updated
Guidance reviewed including updates to terminology (Early Intervention Supports for Early Childhood)
Minor change to article title.

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2 Before you start

You have read and understood:

article EC Early intervention supports for early childhood overview
article EC PEC – Capacity building – How to complete early intervention supports for early childhood questions.

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3 Behaviour support through Early Intervention

Supports for Early Childhood

A child’s behaviour support needs are likely be met through early childhood intervention supports, delivered by early childhood intervention professionals. Early childhood intervention supports can be used to help with support for a child’s behaviours that are challenging to manage. This could include behaviours where a child harms themself or others. These are called behaviours of concern. Early childhood intervention professionals can help families and carers with parenting and behaviour management strategies relating to the child’s developmental delay or disability. The aim of this support is to work out the reasons for the child’s behaviour. It offers strategies that will help the family support the child to find other ways to meet their needs.

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4 Behaviour supports through Specialist Behavioural

Intervention Support

Funding for early childhood plans include intervention supports based on developmental areas of need, and specialist behavioural intervention is not often required. However, there may be exceptional circumstances where specialist behavioural intervention support may be required. This would usually be due to the use of, or need for regulated restrictive practices, and in cases where there is sufficient evidence to support the need for specialist behavioural intervention support.

Under the NDIS (Restrictive Practices and Behaviour Support) Rules 2018 (external), restrictive practices are subject to regulation. Regulated restrictive practices can only be used based on an assessment of behaviour with the appropriate authorisation from the relevant state or territory and where it is part of a behaviour support plan. The behaviour support plan must be developed by a registered behaviour support specialist, who is recognised as being suitable by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (external).

Behaviour support in the context of restrictive practices requires funding under the support category ‘Behaviour Support.’ Further guidance around the level of specialist behavioural intervention support can be found in the Planning Conversation Support Tool. The NDIS early childhood approach recognises that collaborative and coordinated teamwork is essential to best practice in early childhood intervention. Therefore, the behaviour support specialist can operate, as part of the team around the child to reduce and eliminate the use of regulated restrictive practices. The early childhood sector needs to embed a clear commitment to the reduction and elimination of regulated restrictive practices as per the National Framework for Reducing and Eliminating the Use of Restrictive Practices in the Disability Service Sector (external).

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5 Mandatory referral to Technical Advice and Practice

Improvement Branch (TAPIB)

If there is the use of, or likely to be the use of regulated restrictive practices the planner delegate must create a technical advice case and submit it to TAPIB. A response from TAPIB must be received prior to the inclusion or exclusion of funding related to regulated restrictive practices in the participant’s NDIS plan. Refer to the Technical Advice and Practice Improvement Branch Confluence for more information.

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6 Are regulated restrictive practices in use (or likely to

be in use)?

If you have identified there is a use of, or likely to be the use of regulated restrictive practices, the table below gives examples on how an early childhood partner may complete the free text fields for the PEC Capacity Building regulated restrictive practices question.

Describe the child’s behaviour of concern and support needs, for each relevant area.
Include the source of the information.
If the information is available in a report, add the name, profession, date of report/s. Reports must be uploaded into PACE.

The free text fields have character limits. If more space is required, add the information to internal note in the Activity log.

Please use the following table as a guide only.

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