Evidence that Holds Up

The home this session is built on had an engaged governing body, a statutory quality care advisory body, an active clinical governance committee, a live continuous improvement plan and an exceptional lifestyle program. It still recorded findings rated Extreme, because the evidence could not carry what the care was delivering.

Your registration renewal will be audited on what you can produce, in the window you are given.

Built from a real audit, not a framework summary

Every example in this session comes from a proactive gap audit conducted against the Aged Care Act 2024, the Aged Care Rules 2025 and the strengthened Quality Standards. All case material is de-identified. Every finding, figure and quotation is real.

Four numbers from that audit:

• 21 of 124 policies still citing repealed or non-existent legislation, months after commencement
• 0 restrictive practices with a signed authorisation retrievable from the electronic record
• 1 of 218 risk register entries linked to the continuous improvement plan
• 1 hour, the window in which evidence must be located, or it cannot be relied on

If you are confident none of those would apply to your service, this session will confirm it. If you are not certain, that is the reason to book.

Delivered to your team, not to individuals

This session is designed for a room. We deliver it to your people, at your service, at your head office, or online, for groups of eight to thirty participants.

There is a reason for that. Quality and clinical leads own the evidence. The governing body owns the assurance it is given. They fail together, so they should learn together, in the same room, looking at the same examples.

Group delivery also means we can tailor it. Ask us to build the worked examples from your own evidence folders and the session doubles as a readiness diagnostic.

What the session covers

1. The framework and the two tools. What changed on 1 November 2025, what each tool tests, and the four questions an assessor applies to every document: is it current, complete, authentic, and did it change anything?

2. Part A, the AECT: systems evidence. The policy suite that stalled mid-remediation, position descriptions naming retired funding tools, minutes on 2020 templates, notification without closure, and the assurance the board could not rely on.

3. Part B, the CDECT: practice evidence. Outbreak plans that could not be produced, training folders holding blank competency forms, the three documents every restrictive practice needs, and why the tail matters more than the mean.

4. Part C, the assessor also watches. One morning on the floor produced two High findings, one Extreme and a possible unreported Priority 1 incident. None of it had been surfaced by the documents.

5. Getting ready. The evidence index, the empty-folder walk, the timed retrieval test, a sequenced 90 day plan, and ten questions for the governing body.

6. Three group activities. Audit your own minutes. Apply the restrictive practices test to a real resident. Read three observations and name the shared risk, before we tell you they came from one home in one week.

Who should attend

• Quality, risk and compliance managers
• Directors of Nursing, care and clinical managers
• Facility and service managers
• Key personnel and responsible persons
• Governing body and board members
• Quality care advisory body members
• Registered nurses with clinical governance responsibility

What you leave with

• A working understanding of what the AECT and CDECT actually ask for
• The four tests an assessor applies to every item of evidence
• Twenty-plus worked examples, each with what good would have looked like
• An evidence index template covering item, location, owner, currency and timed retrieval
• A sequenced 90 day readiness plan
• Ten questions for your governing body
• A participant workbook and the full slide set

Investment

$3,750 + GST for up to ten participants. $250 per additional participant to a maximum of thirty.

Every participant receives the workbook, the templates, the full slide set and a certificate of completion.

Delivered online at no additional cost. For on-site delivery we recover travel and accommodation at cost, agreed with you in advance.

Discounts for small NFP's considered.

Session detail

Duration. 3.5 hours including two breaks. A 60 minute executive and governing body version is also available.

Delivery. On site at your service, at your head office, or online.

Group size. Eight to thirty participants. Smaller groups considered case by case.

Format. Facilitated presentation with three small-group activities, a participant workbook and take-home templates.

Facilitators. Angelika Koplin MHSc, Principal Consultant, with an associate registered nurse consultant.

Currency. Anchored to the Aged Care Act 2024, the current compilation of the Aged Care Rules 2025 and the strengthened Quality Standards, and reviewed before each delivery.

Tailoring. We can build the worked examples from your own evidence folders.

A partnership

Evidence that Holds Up is delivered by Angelika Koplin of Aged Care Strategies and Support, in partnership with Mirus Academy.

Angelika brings the content and the regulatory and clinical governance depth, drawn from proactive gap audits conducted inside real services. Mirus Academy brings the delivery platform, coordination and support. It is a deliberate pairing: the person who has done the audits, and the organisation that sees how evidence and reporting systems behave across the sector.