Registration groups

NDIS registration group 0138: Assistance with supported independent living

Written by James, creator of Bluetail·Published 8 October 2026

Supported Independent Living - 24/7 or rostered support in a shared home. Registration is mandatory for SIL providers (since 1 July 2026). Here's what group 0138 covers, who registers for it, the 22 support items funded under it, the groups it's often confused with, and the audit it needs.

What 0138 covers

Assistance with Supported Independent Living (SIL): help with daily tasks for participants living in a shared home, often with 24-hour or rostered support. It became its own group on 1 July 2026, with its own supplementary module.

The NDIS Support Catalogue 2026-27 lists 22 support items under 0138, funded from the Home and Living budget. Leaving out the time-of-day, rate-level and claim-type variants, the supports are:

• Intensive and Complex Behaviour Supports
• Supported Independent Living
• Supported Independent Living - Exit Accommodation Permanently
• Supported Independent Living - Night-Time Sleepover

Who registers for 0138

SIL providers.

Since 1 July 2026, SIL providers must be registered with the NDIS Commission for 0138. Providers already delivering SIL had until 1 October 2026 to be registered for 0138 or to have applied.

Groups 0138 is often confused with

• 0115 Assistance with daily life tasks in a group or shared living arrangement now covers other shared-living supports, such as short-term accommodation (respite) and medium-term accommodation.
• 0131 Specialist disability accommodation is the SDA housing itself.

Audit: verification or certification?

0138 is a certification group. You are audited against the NDIS Practice Standards Core Module, plus the Supported Independent Living Module (Module 5A), in two stages, with an onsite visit, interviews with workers and participants, and a mid-term audit. Your audit type is set by the highest of your groups, so registering for 0138 makes your whole registration a certification audit. See verification vs certification audits, how the NDIS audit works and what a certification audit costs.

If you use regulated restrictive practices, or carry out a behaviour support plan that includes them, you must be registered and you are also assessed against the Implementing Behaviour Support Plans Module. Our guide to Module 2A explains what that involves.

Groups often registered alongside 0138

• 0115 Assistance with daily life tasks in a group or shared living arrangement (certification)
• 0107 Assistance with daily personal activities (certification)
• 0104 High intensity daily personal activities (certification)
• 0125 Participation in community, social and civic activities (certification)

Only register for the groups you actually deliver: every extra group adds to what the auditor checks. Our guide to choosing your NDIS registration groups walks through it.

Documents you need for 0138

A certification audit checks your policies, procedures and records against the Core Module: participant rights, governance and operational management, how you deliver supports, and the environment you deliver them in. The auditor then looks for evidence you follow them, through your records and interviews.

If you help participants with medication or mealtimes, you also need medication and mealtime management policies and records.

The Bluetail registration pack has 82 editable documents pre-filled with your business details. See the documents you need for NDIS registration and the NDIS provider registration checklist.

Sources: the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission's table of registration groups and audit types, and the NDIA's NDIS Support Catalogue 2026-27. This page is general information to help you prepare for registration. It isn't legal or compliance advice and isn't affiliated with the NDIS Commission or the NDIA. Rules and catalogues change, so confirm your groups and audit type with the NDIS Commission when you apply.