The New 2026 SIL Guidelines Are Live.
Are your SIL policies and documents Ready?
Effective 1 July 2026, the new NDIS Supported Independent Living quality guidelines are officially active across the sector. Binders filled with static, off-the-shelf templates cannot dynamically reflect your actual day-to-day house practices.
Auditly provides the structural software tools, automated regulatory tracking, and field-ready verification frameworks designed to help your organisation build, maintain, and evidence an audit-ready service.

Inside the Module 5a: Supported Independent Living Framework
This specialised pack delivers the targeted policies, handbooks, state-specific tenancy frameworks, active staff observation tools, and smart forms designed to align directly with the Part 8A Module 5A quality indicators.
I. Core SIL Policies & Procedures
- Supported Decision-Making Standard in Supported Independent Living: Policy frameworks built to actively promote, support, and document participant autonomy, will, and preferences in daily life.
- Safeguarding in Supported Independent Living (SIL) Policy: Robust structures to manage risk assessments, incident management, and proactive safety measures while balancing the participant's dignity of risk.
- Practice Governance In Supported Independent Living: Establishes clear operational accountability, quality tracking, worker development planning, and leadership oversight.
- Tenancy, Housing and Support Arrangements Policy and Procedure: Structured guidelines to maintain a transparent, compliant separation between tenancy management and support delivery functions.
- Service Agreements in Supported Independent Living: Updated agreement frameworks covering dynamic service changes, vacancy management, visitor access, and co-tenant conflict resolution.

II. Handbooks & Practical Manuals
- SIL Participant Handbook: A rewritten, highly accessible guide explaining service models, rights, and responsibilities under the updated standards.
- SIL Staff Handbook: An abbreviated operational reference manual to help teams understand and implement core policies on shift.
- SIL House Manual: A property-specific workspace handbook designed for on site staff training and operational tracking within each individual house.
- About Your House Guide:
A personalised, clear guide for participants to understand their unique home environment and house-sharing arrangements.

III. State-Specific Tenancy & Occupancy Frameworks
Easily navigate local residential regulations with frameworks mapped to specific state and territory laws:
- New South Wales: Residential Tenancies and Disability Accommodation Policy
- Queensland: Rooming Accommodation and Tenancy Framework Policy
- Victoria: Tenancy Rules and SDA Residency Framework Policy
- Western Australia: Tenancy Rules and Bond Management Policy
- South Australia: Rooming House Operational Framework Policy
- Australian Capital Territory: Occupancy Agreement Framework Policy
- Tasmania: Boarding and Residential Tenancy Rules Policy
- Northern Territory: Lodging and Residential Tenancy Rules Policy

IV. Practice Guidelines & Accessible Resources
- 4.6 Practice Guidelines: Supported Decision-Making: Practical operational steps to guide frontline staff through daily support tasks, choice facilitation, and identifying when independent advocacy is needed.
- Supported Decision-Making (Easy Read): Participant-focused, accessible documentation to support informed choice using clear terms.
- Conflict of Interest (Easy Read):
Transparent disclosure tools designed to be easily understood by participants and their support networks.

V. Evidence-Based Staff Competency & Observation Checklists
Quality guidelines require verifiable proof that your workforce is regularly trained and assessed as competent in evidence-based practices. Move away from basic signature lists with mobile-friendly tracking tools:
- Trauma-Informed Practice Observation Checklist: Document and verify that support teams actively apply trauma-informed care principles on shift.
- Supported Decision-Making Staff Observation Checklist: Record exactly how frontline staff facilitate choice while respecting participant autonomy and dignity of risk.
- Supported Decision-Making Friction Log: Log operational complexities, barriers, or disagreements regarding participant choices to support continuous quality improvement.
- Person-Centred Active Supports Observation Checklist: Evaluate how effectively staff involve participants in meaningful household tasks and activities.
- De-Escalation Strategies Observation Checklist: Evidence that your team proactively, safely, and calmly manages behaviors of concern.
- Cultural Safety & Responsiveness Observation Checklist: Track workforce compliance with inclusive, culturally respectful service delivery frameworks.
- Behaviour Support Plan Implementation Observation Checklist: Proactively audit how accurately teams execute specific positive behavior support strategies.
- SIL Team Leader Observation Checklist: Monitor house management, shift handovers, and leadership operational quality.
- SIL Staff Supervision Observation Checklist / Worker Competency:
Streamline scheduled performance reviews, field monitoring, mentoring, and core competency sign-offs.

VI. Smart Forms & Daily Operational Checklists
- SIL Intake Form & Comprehensive Participant Support Plan
- SIL Home Environment Assessment Checklist (Home Safe Checklist)
- SIL Home Emergency Management Plan & SIL Emergency Drill Checklist 2 (Coordinated and rehearsed emergency planning logs)
- Our SIL Home Vision Statement (For individual property alignment)
- SIL Service Agreement & SIL Service Agreement with Easy Read
- Participant Wellbeing and Safeguarding Check-in (Proactive safeguarding checks)
- Supervision records and state-based Tenancy Agreements

Why Auditly is Different
Auditly completely replaces rigid, static manuals with a responsive operational workspace. We provide operational freedom without compliance risk by resolving the ultimate provider anxiety:
the fear of making a mistake while trying to make a policy fit your real business.
1. Total Customisation Freedom (With AI Guardrails)
You know your business, your participants, and your staff workflows better than an outside consultant. Your policies should reflect that unique identity. With traditional Word templates, making changes is a guessing game, delete the wrong paragraph, and you risk a significant compliance gap.
- The Security Net: Auditly’s built-in AI Smart Editor acts as your digital compliance safety net.
- How It Works: The platform highlights exactly what you can safely tailor, adapt, and rewrite to match your daily house workflows, while securely locking in the mandatory NDIS, Federal, and State legislative clauses.
- The Result: Dynamic, practical documents that meet structural quality expectations while matching how your homes actually run.
2. Living Policies That Evolve on Autopilot
Monitoring regulatory shifts shouldn't be a constant guessing game. The NDIS space changes rapidly, making manual tracking a severe administrative drain.
- 400+ Daily Compliance Checks: Our engine monitors shifting legislation and standards every single day.
- No Manual Overhauls: When a regulation shifts, we write the required update and push it directly into your dashboard.
- Retain Your Customisations: Your unique operational edits remain perfectly intact. You simply review our suggested update, see exactly where it lands in your framework, and click accept.
3. Integrated Digital Form Ecosystem
Policies are completely useless if they sit in a dusty folder on a manager's desktop. Compliance only works when your frontline team can execute it seamlessly in the field.
- Stop leaking money on external subscriptions like DocuSign, fillable PDF tools, or messy paper printing.
- Auditly includes a built-in digital Form Builder and Form Library that links directly to your compliance logic.
- High-intensity evidence logs, like your staff observation checklists can be accessed, signed, and completed digitally by staff right from their mobile phones while on shift.
- Staff sign-offs, daily registers, and observation check-ins automatically route back to your central dashboard, proving continuous compliance tracking to auditors on demand.
Living Policies That Evolve on Autopilot
Integrated Digital Form Ecosystem
Direct Expertise Mapped to Sector Expectations
Every workflow inside Auditly is informed by the structural logic of Tania Gomez, a recognised NDIS consultant and advisor who has supported more than 10,000 providers through direct consultancy, audits, training, podcasts and industry events. We combine deep regulatory insight with advanced software engineering to handle the administrative heavy lifting of tracking background changes, allowing your leadership team to focus directly on participant care and service delivery.

Smart Policies. Transparent Value.
Traditional consultancy templates can carry high manual maintenance costs and quickly fall out of sync with new laws. Auditly provides an adaptable, auto-updating workspace for a transparent yearly subscription.
Traditional Consultant Policy Packs
❌ Rigid templates (High customisation risk)
❌ Manual tracking of 400+ standards
❌ Scattered software or paper printouts
❌ Point-in-time compliance checks
Estimated Custom Cost: $3,700+
The Auditly Workspace Solution
✔ Living, Editable Documents with AI Guardrails
✔ Real-Time Automated Update Engine
✔ Built-In Digital Form Builder & Mobile Logs
✔ Continuous Audit Trail & Version Control
Your Investment: $1,500/yr + $695/module
Smart Policies. Simple Pricing.
Traditional consultancy templates carry high manual maintenance costs and quickly fall out of sync with shifting standards. Auditly provides an adaptable, auto-updating workspace for a transparent yearly subscription fee.
Get Certified Foundation Pathway
$1,500 / year
- Full Certification Policy Suite: Tailored to your services and ready in minutes.
- Living, Editable Documents: Smart policies that match your brand and scale.
- Real-Time Update Engine: Immediate updates when background standards change.
- Compliance Change Tracking: Full version control and audit logs of every edit.
- Smart Forms: Comprehensive library of editable templates and smart form builder.
Module 5a Add-on (Supported Independent Living)
$695 / year (Added to your base subscription)
- The complete suite of specialised 5.1.1 - 5.1.4 SIL policies, handbooks, manuals, state tenancy layouts, and the 9 specialised frontline worker competency checklists required for 24/7 care setups.
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Operational Disclaimer: Compliance remains an active, ongoing operational responsibility of the provider. Auditly provides software tools, automated regulatory tracking, and expert-informed policy frameworks to assist providers in maintaining audit readiness. Auditly does not guarantee audit outcomes or independent regulatory approval