How much does a SIL certification audit cost?

No approved quality auditor on the Commission's published list advertises a price, and the Commission states that it does not set prices for audit services. The most widely cited indicative figure in the sector, published by Team DSC, is that certification audits start at around $3,000 and run up to tens of thousands — described by DSC itself as a very broad guide. Treat that as a planning bracket, not a quote. The only number that means anything is the one an approved quality auditor gives you against your Initial Scope of Audit.

Why does this page not give a single total?

Because the largest line item is one that no public source prices reliably, and a total built on a made-up audit fee is a made-up total. What we can do honestly is give you the sourced floor of the costs that are knowable, name the drivers of the variable line, and tell you how to close the gap with three real quotes in a fortnight.

Do we have to pay for worker screening for every worker?

Every worker in a risk-assessed role and every key person needs an NDIS worker screening clearance. Clearances are valid for up to five years and are portable between employers, so a worker who already holds a current clearance does not need a new one. Fees are set by each state and territory screening unit, not by the Commission, and volunteers are free or near-free in most jurisdictions.

What are the ongoing costs after we are registered?

Registration is generally granted for three years. Providers who completed a certification audit are required to complete a mid-term audit, and the Commission suggests beginning preparation about twelve months after your registration date. Then recertification. In between, worker screening clearances expire on a five-year cycle, training currency has to be maintained, and registers have to actually be kept. The providers who get hurt at recertification are the ones who treated the first certificate as a finish line.

Cost breakdown · 2026 · all figures AUD

What NDIS SIL registration actually costs in 2026

The Commission charges nothing. The audit is the real number, and nobody publishes it. Here is every cost we can source, every driver of the one we cannot, and the honest gaps in between.

Reviewed by an ISO 17065 Lead Auditor · Published 4 August 2026

How to read this page

Every dollar figure below is either our own published price or carries a source you can open.

Where a number is set by government, it is cited to the NDIS Commission or another Commonwealth or state source. Where no government source exists — which is the case for auditor fees — the figure is labelled as an indicative market range, attributed to the specific publication we took it from, and treated as a planning bracket rather than a price. Where we could not source a number at all, this page says so and leaves the space empty. There are three of those, and they are listed near the bottom.

All figures are in Australian dollars. Government fees are not subject to GST; auditor fees and our own fees are quoted plus GST. The full source register is at the foot of the page, numbered, with the date each page was last updated.

The whole picture

Nine cost lines. Two of them are big.

Providers budget for the audit and forget the rest. The rest is smaller, but it is also the part that arrives while you are still preparing — worker screening for fourteen people lands before the auditor sends an invoice.

Numbers in brackets link to the source register.

Summary of the costs of NDIS SIL provider registration in 2026
Cost	What it is	2026 amount (AUD)	Source
NDIS Commission application	Lodging the registration application and the Commission's suitability assessment.	$0	[2]
Certification audit (Stage 1 + Stage 2)	Paid by you directly to an approved quality auditor. Mandatory for every registered SIL provider — there is no verification pathway for SIL.	Indicative only: from around $3,000, and up to tens of thousands for larger or more complex providers	[1][19]
NDIS Worker Screening Check	Per worker in a risk-assessed role, plus every key person. Valid up to five years. Fee set by each state and territory screening unit; volunteers are free or near-free in most jurisdictions.	$112 – $161.30 per paid worker across the five jurisdictions we verified	[5][11][12][13][14][15]
NDIS Worker Orientation Module	The Commission's online module, Quality, Safety and You.	Free	[6]
Internal staff time	Building and populating the evidence pack, then keeping it alive. Not a cash cost, which is exactly why it gets left out of the budget.	The largest cost most providers never count — worked below	Not sourced — see note
Insurance	Providers carry cover as part of meeting their governance and risk obligations and their obligations under other law.	No figure published here — we could not source a defensible range	[4]
Consulting support (optional)	Preparing the application and building the evidence pack, if you do not do it in-house.	Compliance Care: from $2,900 + GST, or from $4,500 + GST for audit-facing work	[21]
Mid-term audit (about 18 months in)	Required for providers who completed a certification audit. Narrower scope than the initial audit.	Quoted separately by an approved quality auditor — we could not source a reliable range	[2]
Recertification (about three years in)	Registration is generally granted for three years.	Quoted separately by an approved quality auditor	[4][2]

1 — The Commission

Applying to the NDIS Commission is free. Genuinely, entirely free.

This is the one number on the page with no ambiguity, so it is worth quoting the Commission directly rather than paraphrasing it.

“There is no cost to register with the NDIS Commission, but providers will need to pay for an approved quality auditor to complete an audit. The cost of an audit is dependent on the size and scale of your organisation and number of NDIS participants you support. You are encouraged to get quotes from multiple approved quality auditors and compare them. The NDIS Commission doesn’t set prices for audit services.”
NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, The quality audit process[2]

Two things follow from that paragraph, and both matter to your budget. First, if anyone invoices you for an “NDIS registration fee” payable to the Commission, something is wrong. Second, the Commission itself tells you to get multiple quotes — which is the single most useful piece of cost advice on this page, and it comes from the regulator, not from us.

2 — The auditor

The largest cost, paid to someone who does not publish a price.

Every registered SIL provider needs certification audits, must comply with the core module of the NDIS Practice Standards, and must comply with the new supplementary module for SIL.[1] A certification audit runs in two stages: Stage 1, a desktop audit; Stage 2, an on-site audit where the auditor looks at how you are implementing your policies and procedures, views records, visits sites, and interviews staff and participants.[2] You pay for both.

What we found when we went looking for a price

The Commission publishes a list of seventeen approved quality auditors, all of which state they provide services Australia-wide.[3]
The Commission does not set prices for audit services.[2]
We opened approved quality auditors’ own websites on 4 August 2026 looking for a published fee schedule and did not find one. Several publish their cost drivers in detail; the ones we checked all quote on application.[20]

So there is no official figure to give you, and we are not going to manufacture one. What follows is an indicative sector bracket, attributed, and then the drivers that decide where in it you land.

Indicative market range — not an official figure

The most widely cited public estimate in the sector is published by Team DSC: verification audits around $1,000–$2,000, and for the certification modules the lowest price would be around $3,000 and up to tens of thousands. DSC describes this as “a very broad guide” and “an approximation”.[19]

For SIL the verification row is irrelevant — SIL is a certification pathway. So the honest planning statement is: start at around $3,000 as a floor, expect a multi-site provider with supplementary modules to be well above it, and replace the estimate with three real quotes as early as you can.

What actually moves the number

Audit type — and for SIL, it is settled[1][2]

A verification audit is a desktop review for lower-risk supports. A certification audit is a two-stage assessment with an on-site component. Every registered SIL provider needs certification audits, must comply with the core module of the NDIS Practice Standards, and must comply with the new supplementary module for SIL. So the cheaper pathway is not available to you, and any cost comparison that quotes you a verification number is answering a different question.

Scope — registration groups and modules[1][2]

SIL adds registration group 0138 to a certificate. What else you deliver adds its own groups and, where relevant, further supplementary modules — specialist disability accommodation, behaviour support, high-intensity daily personal activities. Each one is more standards to assess and more audit time to pay for. Getting scope wrong at application means re-scoping mid-audit, which costs more than getting it right cost.

Size — participants, workers, sites[2][20]

The Commission states plainly that audit cost depends on the size and scale of your organisation and the number of NDIS participants you support. Approved quality auditors that publish their cost drivers add the number of participants receiving supports within high-risk modules, the number of workers delivering services, and geographic coverage. Sampling is the mechanism: more files, more interviews, more days.

Geography — the loading nobody budgets for[7]

The Australian Government's own impact analysis records that audit cost has been cited as a barrier by regional providers because approved quality auditors will often charge a higher rate for travel where it is required. If your houses are three hours apart, that is audit days plus travel, on every site the auditor has to reach.

Readiness — the one you control

Auditor time is the unit of cost. An evidence pack that is organised, populated, signed off and mapped to the quality indicators takes less of it than a folder of unmodified templates, and a Stage 1 that has to be re-presented costs a second Stage 1. This is the only driver on this list you can move by working harder, which is precisely why it is where preparation pays for itself.

How to turn the estimate into a real number, in about a fortnight

Complete the Commission’s online self-assessment. It issues you an Initial Scope of Audit, which tells you the audit type and the modules in scope.[2]
Send that same document to at least three approved quality auditors from the Commission’s published list. Because they are all quoting against the same scope document, the quotes are actually comparable.[3]
Ask each quote to state explicitly whether it includes travel, whether it covers both Stage 1 and Stage 2, and what a re-presentation would cost if Stage 1 returns major non-conformities. Travel and second attempts are where budgets break.[19][7]

What we cannot do for you on price

We do not refer specific approved quality auditors, we do not accept fees from auditors for referrals, and we have no influence over what an auditor quotes or what an auditor decides. Providers choose their own auditor from the list published by the Commission. The only thing preparation changes is how much auditor time your evidence consumes and whether you have to go around a second time — which is a real saving, and a different claim from the one some of this market makes. Our Statement of Impartiality sets out the controls behind that.

3 — Internal cost

The cost nobody invoices you for, and everybody underestimates.

Worker screening

Every worker in a risk-assessed role and every key person needs an NDIS worker screening clearance. Checks are conducted by state and territory screening units, not by the Commission, and are valid for up to five years from date of issue.[5] Clearances are portable between employers, so a worker who already holds a current one is a line you do not pay for.

Fees differ by jurisdiction. These are the paid-worker fees we could verify from an official published page on 4 August 2026:

Verified NDIS worker screening check fees for paid workers by jurisdiction
Jurisdiction	Paid worker (AUD)	Source
NSW	$112	[11]
VIC	$139.20	[12]
QLD	$161.30	[13]
WA	$145	[14]
NT	$149.00	[15]
SA	Not verified — check with the SA Screening Unit	[16]
TAS	Not verified — check with Consumer, Building and Occupational Services	[17]
ACT	Not verified — check with Access Canberra	[18]

We list SA, TAS and ACT as unverified rather than guessing. Their screening units set and publish their own fees; the pages we could reach on 4 August 2026 did not state a current amount we were willing to reproduce. Volunteer rates are free or heavily concessional in every jurisdiction we did verify.

Training

The Commission’s Worker Orientation Module, Quality, Safety and You, is free and available online, and issues a certificate of completion.[6] Budget zero dollars and real hours for it. The role-specific training a SIL service needs — first aid and CPR, manual handling, medication, mealtime management, behaviour support — is priced by whichever provider you use, and we are not going to invent a market rate for it. Get quotes, and put the renewal dates in the same register you will show the auditor.

Staff time — where the real money goes

A SIL evidence pack runs to roughly 40 to 50 documents once you account for the core module, the SIL supplementary module and the state overlays — our own estimate, published in the Unregistered SIL Provider Guide and enumerated document by document in the SIL Registration Checklist 2026. Not templates — documents that reflect how your service actually runs, signed off, version controlled, with named owners.

We are deliberately not publishing an hours figure or an internal-cost dollar figure here, because we do not have a defensible dataset behind one and a made-up benchmark would undermine the rest of this page. What we will say is structural, and you can test it against your own diary: this work is done by the person who also runs the rosters, and every hour of it comes out of a week that is already full. Price it at your own loaded hourly cost, multiply by the documents you do not yet have, and you will get a number that is bigger than the audit fee more often than not. That is the honest reason providers engage help — not that consultants are cheap, but that owner hours are not free.

Insurance

Conditions of registration include compliance with applicable state, territory and Commonwealth laws and having effective systems and practices in place.[4] Providers carry insurance accordingly. We could not find a Commission-published minimum or a sourced premium range for SIL providers, so this page publishes no figure for it. Get quotes, and be sceptical of any cost guide that gives you a confident premium range without saying where it came from.

4 — Consulting support

Our prices are on our website. That is rarer than it should be.

Published pricing is uncommon in NDIS registration consulting. We surveyed five competing consultancies’ websites on 4 August 2026 and none of the five listed a price — in every case the figure sat behind a consultation. We are not going to characterise anyone else’s reasons for that; it is simply a fact about this market that you can verify in ten minutes of searching, and it is why a page like this one is worth writing.

Ours are on the pricing page, and they are the same figures here:

Starting out

From $2,900 + GST

New or unregistered providers preparing their first NDIS application.

Audit incoming

From $4,500 + GST

Registered providers facing verification, certification or re-registration.

Always-on

Monthly retainer

Ongoing compliance support, scoped to your size and stage.

These are starting prices for fixed-scope engagements, not a sticker price for every job. A sole operator with one house and a five-site provider with restrictive practices in place are not the same piece of work, so we scope yours on the call and give you a fixed figure in writing before anything starts. What the published number does is stop you having to book a sales call just to find out whether we are in your range.[21]

And to be clear about what you are buying: consulting is optional. Every document in the checklist can be built in-house by a provider with the time and the standards knowledge to do it. The trade is money against owner hours and against the risk of a Stage 1 that has to be re-presented.

5 — Worked examples

Two providers, every input labelled.

These are planning models, not quotes, and they are deliberately incomplete in one place: the audit line. Everything else is sourced.

Example A — one house, three participants, eight workers, metropolitan

A small provider registering for the first time, with no existing document set.

Cost model for a small SIL provider
Line	Amount (AUD)	Basis	Source
NDIS Commission application	$0	Published Commission position.	[2]
Worker screening — 9 people (8 workers + 1 key person)	$1,008 – $1,451.70	9 × the lowest and highest verified paid-worker fee ($112 in NSW, $161.30 in Queensland). Assumes nobody already holds a current clearance — every existing clearance takes a line off this.	[11][13]
Worker Orientation Module — 9 people	$0	Free.	[6]
Certification audit, Stage 1 + Stage 2	From about $3,000	Indicative sector figure, not an official one, and the floor rather than the expected number. This is the line you must replace with real quotes.	[19]
Consulting support (optional)	From $2,900 + GST	Our published starting price for a first registration.	[21]

Where that lands. The knowable, sourced costs come to roughly $1,000–$1,500, effectively all of it worker screening. Add the indicative audit floor and you are at about $4,000–$4,500 plus GST on the audit, before any consulting. With our Starting-out engagement, about $6,900–$7,400 plus GST on the audit and consulting lines. The audit is the number that can move, and it can only move upward from the floor — which is why step one is three quotes, not a spreadsheet.

Example B — four houses, fourteen participants, forty-five workers, two states, regulated restrictive practices

A larger provider with more scope, more sampling and more travel.

Cost model for a larger SIL provider
Line	Amount (AUD)	Basis	Source
NDIS Commission application	$0	Published Commission position.	[2]
Worker screening — 45 people	$5,040 – $7,258.50	45 × the lowest and highest verified paid-worker fee. A multi-state workforce pays each state's fee, not one national fee.	[11][13]
Worker Orientation Module — 45 people	$0	Free.	[6]
Certification audit, Stage 1 + Stage 2	Materially more than the small-provider floor	More sites, more participants, more workers and more modules all push it up, and travel to non-metropolitan sites is charged. The only sourced upper marker we can point to is DSC's phrase, up to tens of thousands. We are not going to invent a tighter one.	[19][20][7]
Consulting support (optional)	From $4,500 + GST	Our published starting price for audit-facing work.	[21]

Where that lands. Sourced costs alone are $5,000–$7,300, again almost entirely worker screening — which is already more than a small provider’s entire registration. On top of that sits an audit fee that four sites, two jurisdictions, a supplementary module for restrictive practices and non-metropolitan travel will all push up. We are not going to put a total on this one. Any consultant who gives you a confident total for a provider of this shape without seeing your Initial Scope of Audit is guessing, and you should ask them where the number came from.

6 — What we could not source

Three gaps, stated rather than filled.

A reliable upper bound for a small provider’s certification audit. The only sourced upper marker available to us is “up to tens of thousands”, which covers everything from a two-house service to a national organisation. We use the floor and tell you to get quotes.[19]
Insurance premiums. No Commission-published requirement and no sourced premium range for SIL providers. We publish nothing rather than a plausible bracket.
Worker screening fees for SA, TAS and the ACT. Verified for five of eight jurisdictions; the other three are marked as unverified with a link to the relevant screening unit.

If you have a current, citable source for any of these — a published fee schedule, a recent quote you are willing to share — we will add it and credit it. This page is maintained, not published once.

7 — After you are registered

Registration is a three-year subscription, not a purchase.

Mid-term audit.Registered providers who completed a certification audit and are registered for higher-risk or more complex supports are required to complete a mid-term audit, assessed against provider governance and operational management plus anything that previously carried a corrective action plan. The Commission’s guidance has providers beginning preparation about twelve months after their registration date, with the audit at the eighteen-month point. Quoted separately by an approved quality auditor.[2]
Recertification. Registration is generally granted for three years, so the full cycle comes around again.[4]
Worker screening renewals. Five-year expiry per worker, plus a fee for every new hire in a risk-assessed role. On a forty-five-person workforce with normal turnover this is a recurring line, not a one-off.[5]
Keeping the evidence alive. Training currency, register upkeep, incident and complaint records, policy review cycles. This costs hours every month or it costs a remediation project at recertification. There is no third option, and the providers who discover that at month thirty-four pay the most for it.

For what the audit itself asks of you at each of those points, see the SIL Audit Checklist, and our 2026 audit preparation guide.

8 — The question behind the question

“Can we afford to register at all?”

Most people who search for what registration costs are not doing procurement. They are working out whether their service survives. So here is the other side of the ledger, with the same sourcing discipline.

If you do not apply.The Commission’s position is that a provider currently delivering SIL who chooses not to apply will need to stop providing supported independent living supports, and must then follow the notification and participant transition steps. Delivering SIL without registration may breach the NDIS Act, with a maximum penalty of two years’ imprisonment, a fine of 120 penalty units, or both.[1] A Commonwealth penalty unit is $364 for offences committed on or after 1 July 2026, so 120 units is $43,680.[9]The exposure is personal as well as corporate, which is why sole traders are named explicitly in the Commission’s guidance.

If you apply late. The apply-by date for providers already delivering SIL is 1 October 2026.[1] That has a cost dimension people miss: as the date closes in, seventeen approved quality auditors are scheduling a whole segment of the market at once, and rushed preparation is more expensive preparation. The full picture on dates is on our SIL registration deadline page.

Against what you are protecting.The Commission’s own consultation paper records that SIL participants have average NDIS plan budgets of $451,100, against $58,900 for non-SIL participants.[10] We are not going to model your revenue from that — plan budgets are not provider income, and yours depends on your participants and your supports. But it is the right context for a registration cost measured in single-digit thousands: for most SIL services the question is not whether registration is affordable, it is whether it gets done properly and on time.

If it genuinely is not affordable. Then the honest planning question is an orderly exit or a transition of participants to another provider, not continuing unregistered and hoping. That is a worse outcome for you and a much worse one for the people you support, and it is worth a conversation before the date rather than after it. Our Unregistered SIL Provider Guide and what to do if you have missed the deadline both cover the pathways.

Talk it through on a free call

Questions

Frequently asked.

Does the NDIS Commission charge a fee to register?: No. The Commission's published position is that there is no cost to register with the NDIS Commission, but providers will need to pay for an approved quality auditor to complete an audit. Anyone quoting you a Commission application fee is quoting you something that does not exist.
How much does a SIL certification audit cost?: No approved quality auditor on the Commission's published list advertises a price, and the Commission states that it does not set prices for audit services. The most widely cited indicative figure in the sector, published by Team DSC, is that certification audits start at around $3,000 and run up to tens of thousands — described by DSC itself as a very broad guide. Treat that as a planning bracket, not a quote. The only number that means anything is the one an approved quality auditor gives you against your Initial Scope of Audit.
Why does this page not give a single total?: Because the largest line item is one that no public source prices reliably, and a total built on a made-up audit fee is a made-up total. What we can do honestly is give you the sourced floor of the costs that are knowable, name the drivers of the variable line, and tell you how to close the gap with three real quotes in a fortnight.
Can Compliance Care get us a cheaper audit?: No, and we would be misleading you if we implied otherwise. Providers choose their own approved quality auditor from the list published by the NDIS Commission. We do not refer specific auditors, we do not accept fees from auditors for referrals, and we have no influence over what an auditor quotes or decides. What preparation affects is the amount of auditor time your evidence pack consumes and whether you have to go back around a second time. See our Statement of Impartiality at /trust.
Do we have to pay for worker screening for every worker?: Every worker in a risk-assessed role and every key person needs an NDIS worker screening clearance. Clearances are valid for up to five years and are portable between employers, so a worker who already holds a current clearance does not need a new one. Fees are set by each state and territory screening unit, not by the Commission, and volunteers are free or near-free in most jurisdictions.
What are the ongoing costs after we are registered?: Registration is generally granted for three years. Providers who completed a certification audit are required to complete a mid-term audit, and the Commission suggests beginning preparation about twelve months after your registration date. Then recertification. In between, worker screening clearances expire on a five-year cycle, training currency has to be maintained, and registers have to actually be kept. The providers who get hurt at recertification are the ones who treated the first certificate as a finish line.
What does it cost not to register?: The Commission's position is that a provider currently delivering SIL who chooses not to apply will need to stop providing supported independent living supports. Delivering SIL without registration may breach the NDIS Act, with a maximum penalty of two years' imprisonment, a fine of 120 penalty units, or both. A Commonwealth penalty unit is $364 for offences committed on or after 1 July 2026, so 120 units is $43,680. That exposure sits alongside the cost of exiting participants and closing the service.

Source register

Every figure, with its source.

Checked 4 August 2026. Government sources are marked primary; attributed industry estimates are marked indicative and are not official figures.

[1]NDIS Commission — Mandatory registration and transition pathways for supported independent living (SIL)Primary
Registration group 0138, certification-audit requirement, the SIL supplementary module, the 1 October 2026 apply-by date, and the penalty for delivering SIL unregistered. Page last updated 1 July 2026.
https://www.ndiscommission.gov.au/about-us/ndis-commission-reform-hub/mandatory-registration/mandatory-registration-SIL
[2]NDIS Commission — The quality audit processPrimary
Audit costs, who sets audit prices, verification vs certification, Stage 1 and Stage 2, mid-term audits. Page last updated 20 July 2026.
https://www.ndiscommission.gov.au/provider-registration/apply-registration/types-audits
[3]NDIS Commission — Find an auditorPrimary
The published list of approved quality auditors. Seventeen organisations listed, all stated to provide services Australia-wide. Page last updated 31 July 2026.
https://www.ndiscommission.gov.au/provider-registration/apply-registration/find-auditor
[4]NDIS Commission — About registrationPrimary
Registration is generally for three years; conditions of registration; who must be registered. Page last updated 22 July 2026.
https://www.ndiscommission.gov.au/provider-registration/about-registration
[5]NDIS Commission — Worker screeningPrimary
Checks are conducted by state and territory screening units and are valid for up to five years from date of issue.
https://www.ndiscommission.gov.au/workforce/worker-screening
[6]NDIS Commission — Worker training modulesPrimary
The Worker Orientation Module (Quality, Safety and You) is stated to be free and available online.
https://www.ndiscommission.gov.au/workforce/online-training-modules
[7]Office of Impact Analysis — Mandatory Registration of all NDIS Providers, Supplementary Impact Analysis (Department of Health, Disability and Ageing)Primary
Records that audit cost is cited as a barrier by smaller providers and sole traders, and that approved quality auditors will often charge a higher rate for travel where required.
https://oia.pmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/posts/2026/05/Supplementary%20Analysis.pdf
[8]Office of Impact Analysis — NDIS provider registration reformsPrimary
The NDIS Commission estimates the SIL and platform registration proposal will increase average regulatory costs by $2.72 million per year, averaged over ten years — a whole-of-sector figure, not a per-provider one.
https://oia.pmc.gov.au/published-impact-analyses-and-reports/ndis-provider-registration-reforms
[9]Australian Financial Security Authority — Penalty unitsPrimary
The value of a Commonwealth penalty unit is $364 for offences committed on or after 1 July 2026 (prescribed by the Crimes Act 1914, s 4AA).
https://www.afsa.gov.au/professionals/resource-hub/penalty-units
[10]NDIS Commission — Mandatory Registration: supported independent living (SIL) and support coordination, consultation paper (November 2024)Primary
SIL participants have average NDIS plan budgets of $451,100, against $58,900 for non-SIL participants.
https://www.ndiscommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-11/SIL%20SC%20Mandatory%20Registration%20-%20Consultation%20Paper%20-%20November%202024.pdf
[11]NSW Office of the Children's Guardian — NDIS Worker Check, how to applyPrimary
Application fee $112 for paid workers; free for volunteers.
https://ocg.nsw.gov.au/ndis-worker-check-ndiswc/ndiswc-apply-and-manage/how-apply
[12]Victorian Government — NDIS Worker Screening CheckPrimary
The current fee for an NDIS Worker Screening Check is $139.20.
https://www.vic.gov.au/ndis-worker-screening-check
[13]Queensland Disability Worker Screening — Fees and payment options (version 6, current as at 1 July 2026)Primary
NDIS worker screening only (paid worker): $161.30, valid five years. Volunteers: no fee.
https://www.workerscreening.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0026/16874/fees-payment-options.pdf
[14]Government of Western Australia — Applying for an NDIS CheckPrimary
$145 for paid employees, $11 for volunteers, $80 for eligible concession card holders.
https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-communities/applying-ndis-check
[15]SAFE NT — NDIS Worker Screening CheckPrimary
From 1 July 2026: worker application $149.00, volunteer application $14.00.
https://pfes.nt.gov.au/NDISCheck
[16]SA Government Screening UnitPrimary
South Australian fee not verified from a published fee page at the time of writing — check directly.
https://screening.sa.gov.au/
[17]Tasmania — Registration to Work with Vulnerable PeoplePrimary
Tasmanian fee not verified from a published fee page at the time of writing — check directly.
https://www.justice.tas.gov.au/rwvp
[18]Access Canberra — Working with Vulnerable PeoplePrimary
ACT fee not verified from a published fee page at the time of writing — check directly.
https://www.accesscanberra.act.gov.au/business-and-work/working-with-vulnerable-people
[19]Team DSC — Audits: 5 Frequently Asked QuestionsIndicative
Indicative market figures, not official ones: an audit to the Verification modules may cost around $1,000–$2,000; for the Certification modules the lowest price would be around $3,000 and up to tens of thousands. DSC describes these as a very broad guide and an approximation.
https://teamdsc.com.au/resources/audits-5-frequently-asked-questions/
[20]Quantum Certification Services — NDIS Audits (an approved quality auditor)Indicative
Publishes the factors that drive audit cost and duration: audit type, modules and complexity, total participants and participants in high-risk modules, number of workers, and geographic coverage. Publishes no prices.
https://quantumcs.com.au/standards-we-audit/ndis-audits/
[21]Compliance Care — Pricing and engagementOur own price
Our own published starting prices.
https://compliancecare.com.au/pricing

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