NDIS Early Childhood Intervention Providers – Implementing the Updated National Best Practice Framework (2025)
- Date of Change:
- 2025
- Takes Effect:
- Effective Immediately
The updated National Best Practice Framework for Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) strengthens expectations for how NDIS providers design and deliver supports to children aged 0–9 and their families.
The Framework reinforces a shift toward:
- Family-centred, strengths-based practice, where families are recognised as the primary decision-makers and partners in intervention
- Inclusive, culturally safe, and responsive service delivery, particularly for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and culturally diverse communities
- Delivery of supports in natural environments, such as homes, early learning settings, and community spaces, rather than clinical settings
- Capacity building of families and caregivers, as the primary outcome of intervention
- Participation-focused supports, enabling children to engage meaningfully in everyday routines and community life
- Respect for diversity, including neurodiversity and different developmental pathways
- Greater system integration, ensuring alignment between NDIS supports, Foundational Supports, and mainstream services
The Framework is also supported by new and updated practical resources, including guidance materials, evidence summaries, and implementation tools to assist providers in embedding best practice.
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- Implementing these updates into your procedures & practices
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Provider Institute Best Practice Tip
The most significant shift in the updated Framework is moving from “working on the child” to working with the family and within the child’s everyday environments.
Providers who successfully embed this approach will not only meet compliance expectations but also deliver more meaningful and sustainable outcomes for children and families
There are also a range of resources that the Department have prepared with Fact Sheets and Videos that can be used with consumers when explaining their rights. We encourage you to use those resources rather than having to recreate the information. You can see their available resources here.