Support coordinators: public liability requirements in Victoria

Verified for Victoria

• Licence liability condition: Yes. Appropriate insurance is required as part of NDIS Practice Standards compliance, and the Standards name three kinds rather than one: professional indemnity, public liability AND accident insurance. A provider carrying public liability alone does not meet it. VIC · effective 2010-07-01 NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission · 2026-08-24
• Licence evidence required: Through the registration audit against the Practice Standards rather than as a certificate filed with an application. The auditor tests it, so the cover has to survive scrutiny of its scope rather than merely exist. VIC · effective 2010-07-01 NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission · 2026-08-24
• Licensing body: The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission — FEDERAL, so the requirements are the same in Victoria as everywhere else. A registered support coordinator must have applied for registration, been audited against the relevant NDIS Practice Standards, and undergone a suitability assessment by the Commission. VIC · effective 2010-07-01 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.

• What the limit figure on a certificate means
• Cover for the principal for your work
• When a certificate falls short of the contract

What this cover costs

This site publishes no cost benchmark for this cover. A benchmark needs a real sample of documents, and none is published until the sample is large enough to compute a median honestly. A benchmark from a handful of policies is a guess with a decimal point.

Sources

• NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission — NDIS Commission — Practice Standards and registration