If you deliver Supported Independent Living (SIL) supports, 1 July 2026 is more than a date on a policy timeline – it’s a reset for how your service is regulated, audited and judged on quality. Mandatory SIL registration, the new 0138 registration group and a SIL-specific Practice Standards module mean you now need to show that your workers can keep people safe in their homes, not just that you have policies on paper.
That is exactly where the ADP Framework – Awareness, De-escalation and Protection – can help.
What’s changing for SIL?
From 1 July 2026, all SIL providers must be registered with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission under the new registration group 0138 – Assistance with Supported Independent Living. Existing unregistered SIL providers have until 1 October 2026 to apply for registration if they want to keep delivering supports.
Alongside mandatory registration, a new SIL supplementary Practice Standards module will sit on top of the existing Core Module. These new standards focus heavily on:
- participant safety in the home
- “good and safe support” in shared and individual living
- supported decision-making and participant rights
- clear home/tenancy and support arrangements.
Read more about the changes here
Where ADP training supports your organisation
The ADP Framework breaks workforce capability into three practical streams:
- Awareness – recognising escalation early, understanding triggers, reading the room, and using dynamic risk assessment.
- De-escalation – communicating clearly, responding to distress, and calming situations while protecting dignity.
- Protection – keeping people safe when risk escalates: personal safety, team response, emergency action and post-incident follow-up.
For SIL providers, these three pieces line up neatly with what the new SIL standards are trying to achieve: safer homes, better day-to-day support, and stronger incident management.
Awareness: preventing incidents in the home
The new SIL standards are explicit about wanting “good and safe support” in shared accommodation, delivered by workers who have the right training. Awareness training helps your staff do the quiet, preventive work that often stops an incident before it starts, by:
- noticing changes in mood, behaviour or routine
- understanding common triggers in the house (noise, crowded spaces, rushed routines)
- using dynamic risk assessment in everyday tasks (showers, meals, bedtime, community access)
- working in trauma-informed, person-centred ways rather than reacting to behaviour in isolation.
This links directly to the Core Module expectations around rights, dignity, privacy and safe environments, as well as the SIL focus on participant safety in the home.
De-escalation: safe responses when things heat up
When someone is distressed, annoyed or overwhelmed, how a worker responds in the next 30–60 seconds can decide whether the situation settles or explodes. The new SIL Practice Standards are being designed with frontline workers in mind – they need guidance they can actually use in the kitchen at 7pm, not just policy statements.
ADP’s De-escalation component gives SIL workers:
- practical verbal de-escalation tools (how to speak, what to say, when to pause)
- strategies for setting limits without shaming or escalating
- ways to keep choice and control, even in challenging moments
- clarity about when to call for help or follow escalation procedures.
When this content is tailored to each house’s Behaviour Support Plans and restrictive practice rules, it supports the SIL standards around behaviour support, safeguarding and least restrictive practice – all big priorities in audits.
Protection: proving you can manage risk, not just talk about it
The final piece the Commission is looking for is whether your service can manage risk and learn from incidents, not just complete a training course. The Protection component of ADP lines up with those expectations by focusing on:
- personal and team safety in the home
- what to do when communication and prevention are not enough
- emergency procedures and lockdown/evacuation in a SIL context
- incident reporting that is objective and timely
- post-incident debriefing and psychological safety for participants and staff.
This connects directly to the new SIL Practice Standards and the broader Practice Standards requirements around incident management, open disclosure, and continuous improvement.
Turning ADP into audit evidence
Training alone is never the whole answer – but well-designed training makes it much easier to evidence your compliance. Under the 2026 SIL changes, auditors and partners are already talking about the importance of:
- a clear training register and completion records
- assessments that show workers have understood key content
- refreshers and follow-up, not just one-off sessions
- observation and supervision notes that link back to training.
ADP training can plug into this picture by giving you:
- structured learning outcomes linked to Core and SIL Practice Standard expectations
- scenarios and case studies built specifically around SIL homes and Behaviour Support Plans
- options for assessment and evidence (e.g. quizzes, scenarios, observation tools) you can retain for audit.
When you combine ADP training with your own policies, incident management systems and supervision, you are much closer to being able to show a coherent story: “Here is what we expect; here is how we trained people; here is how we check they use it.”
The bottom line for SIL providers
The 2026 SIL changes are not just about registration forms and new codes – they are about lifting the standard of everyday life in people’s homes and proving that workers have the skills to keep people safe and respected.
The ADP Framework does not replace your governance, tenancy documents or behaviour support systems. What it does do is give your workforce a clear, practical way to:
- notice risk earlier
- respond more safely and respectfully
- manage incidents better when they happen, and
- learn from those events in a way you can show at audit.
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