Supported independent living stopped being a service type folded inside other registration groups and became its own category, support item 0138, with its own set of Practice Standards sitting on top of everything you were already meeting.
If you deliver SIL, that's not a future date to plan around. It already applies. Providers now register specifically for 0138, face independent audits and suitability assessments against it, and are assessed against a new supplementary module built alongside the Core Module you already meet.
This page sets out what the module actually contains, what it asks of your workforce specifically, and where that evidence already lives.
What actually changed
From 1 July 2026, supported independent living is its own NDIS registration category, support item 0138, Assistance with Supported Independent Living. Every provider delivering SIL-funded supports, whether newly registering or already registered under a different group, now registers specifically against it.
That comes with the same weight as any registration category: independent audits, suitability assessments, reporting requirements and worker screening checks, assessed against the Core Module plus a new SIL supplementary module sitting on top of it.
The four standards inside the SIL module
The Commission co-designed the module with Inclusion Australia and people with disability, and it's built around four standards:
Supported Decision-Making. Decisions about someone's home, routines and relationships are made by them, not for them.
Safeguarding. People living in SIL are safe from violence, abuse, neglect and harm, while still being supported to have choice and dignity of risk.
Practice Governance. Governance, supervision and worker systems reflect what actually happens in the house, not just what a policy document says should.
Agreements about tenancy, housing and support. Housing and support arrangements are kept clear and separate, so one is never contingent on the other.
Three of those are about your workforce. One is about paperwork with a housing provider.
Where the line actually falls
Supported Decision-Making is a worker skill, recognising the difference between supporting a choice and making it for someone, and knowing how to do the first one under time pressure.
Safeguarding is a worker skill too, recognising risk, responding to it, knowing when a restrictive practice question needs to go further than the person in the house that shift.
Practice Governance is where training, supervision and worker records live, whether the system behind the house actually reflects what happens in it.
Agreements about tenancy, housing and support sit somewhere else entirely, the contract between the person, their housing arrangement and their support arrangement. That's participant-side paperwork, not workforce evidence.
Your CRM runs the participant side. CORA runs the workforce side. The SIL module draws that exact line for you, three standards deep in workforce and one in tenancy paperwork, and it's worth knowing which one you're looking at before you go hunting for evidence in the wrong system.
Where CORA holds the workforce evidence
Supported Decision-Making. Pathway Builder builds training around the actual people a team supports, not a generic role, so a house supporting someone with high support needs around communication and choice gets a demonstrably different plan from one that doesn't. Person-Centred Active Support is one of the ten Compliance Foundations courses, and the wider Disability Understanding & Daily Life stream, 34 courses named condition by condition, carries the rest of the training itself.
Safeguarding. Restrictive Practices & PBS Fundamentals, Emergency, Disaster & Incident Response and the courses inside Behaviour Support & Crisis carry the training. Worker screening currency, the artefact a Safeguarding audit checks first, is held in Credentials. If your screening renewals are due in the same window as your SIL registration, see how to hold that wave in one register.
Practice Governance. This is most of what the NDIS audit evidence checklist already lists: the training register, the supervision schedule and its records, performance reviews on a cycle, position descriptions per role, and the training plan that shows what's been assigned and completed. Evaluating the effectiveness of training sits here too, whether your training system shows training worked, not just that it happened, is exactly what Practice Governance is checking.
Every claim above is written the same way we write every claim on the site, about a named artefact you can check. See the standard we hold every claim on the site to.
If 0138 is a new registration for you
A first-time SIL registration means the same worker-file basics as any Certification audit: proof of identity and the right to work, the Commission's orientation module certificate plus your own signed induction record, buddy shift records, and screening and qualifications currency, all before a single Practice Standard specific to SIL gets assessed. The full Certification checklist covers all 21 in order.
Common questions
When did the new SIL Practice Standards start?
1 July 2026, alongside mandatory registration for supported independent living as its own category, support item 0138.
Do I need to register separately for SIL now?
Yes. Every provider delivering SIL-funded supports registers specifically against 0138, whether they're newly registering or already registered under a different group.
Does the SIL module replace the Core Module?
No. SIL providers meet the Core Module in full, with the SIL supplementary module assessed alongside it for the supported-living parts of the service.
What are the four SIL standards called?
Supported Decision-Making, Safeguarding, Practice Governance, and Agreements about tenancy, housing and support.
See how the workforce side holds together
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