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Disability support workers: professional indemnity requirements in Tasmania

Cover for legal liability arising from professional advice or services, written on a claims-made basis.

Data as at

Verified for Tasmania

  • Licence liability condition: Yes, and it names THREE kinds rather than one. The NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators require that "Appropriate insurance is in place, including professional indemnity, public liability and accident insurance." A provider carrying public liability alone does not meet the standard. Note the scope: the Practice Standards are mandatory conditions of registration for REGISTERED providers. Unregistered providers must follow the NDIS Code of Conduct but are not held to the Practice Standards — and may only supply participants who self-manage or plan-manage their funding, because NDIA-managed participants can use registered providers only. TAS · effective 2018-02-01 NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission · 2026-08-24
  • Licence evidence required: A certificate of currency showing cover at a minimum level commensurate with the scope of the provider. The Commission does not set a figure; it directs providers to seek professional advice on the type and amount necessary, and the cover is tested through the registration audit against the Practice Standards rather than filed once with an application. TAS · effective 2018-02-01 NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission · 2026-08-24
  • Licensing body: The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission — FEDERAL, under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Provider Registration and Practice Standards) Rules 2018 (Cth). Registration and the Practice Standards are national, so the answer does not change between states. TAS · effective 2018-02-01 NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission · 2026-08-24

What contracts commonly ask for

Principals and head contractors set their own insurance requirements, and those are frequently higher than a licence condition. The requirement that binds is the higher of the two, and both have to be read from the actual document.

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