NDIS SIL Registration Is Now Mandatory — What This Actually Means For Your Organisation

We've been getting a lot of questions about this lately, so we'll break it down clearly.

The NDIS Commission has confirmed that Supported Independent Living (SIL) registration is no longer optional. If you deliver SIL — personal care, overnight supervision, support in shared accommodation — you need to be registered. Full stop.

Two dates matter here:

1 July 2026 is when mandatory registration kicks in. By this date you need to have started your application — not finished it, but started.

1 October 2026 is the hard cut-off. If you haven't lodged an application by then, you have to stop delivering SIL. The Commission isn't leaving much wiggle room on this one.

What does registration actually involve?

A new registration group has been created specifically for this: 0138 – Assistance with Supported Independent Living. To register under it, you'll need to go through a certification audit — the most thorough of the three audit pathways.

That means an auditor will assess your organisation against the Core Module and the new SIL Practice Standards. They want to see documented evidence that your policies and procedures are in place, up to date, and actually reflect how you operate.

This is where a lot of providers get caught out. It's not just about having a policies folder — the documents need to be the right ones, structured the right way, covering the right things.

Why starting early matters

Audit preparation genuinely takes time. Gap analysis, updating or writing policies, pulling together evidence — it's a proper project, not a weekend job. And auditors book out. When everyone realises in July that the October deadline is real, the good auditors will already be full.

The providers we've seen come through this process calmly are the ones who started months ahead, not weeks.

What to do now

First, confirm whether your services sit under registration group 0138. If you deliver SIL supports, they almost certainly do.

Then take stock of your current documentation. What do you have? What's missing? What exists but needs updating? That gap analysis is the foundation of everything else.

From there it's about building or updating your policies and evidence to meet the Standards — and getting an auditor booked before the rush.

Need a hand?

We work with SIL providers on exactly this — helping them figure out where they're at, what needs to be done, and how to get there without it taking over their whole operation.

If you want to talk through your situation, get in touch. No obligation, just a conversation.