NDIS Registration Group 0110: Specialist Behaviour Support

If you’ve seen registration group 0110 in your young person’s NDIS plan, a service agreement or a provider’s listing, it’s the code for specialist positive behaviour support. It’s one of the most tightly regulated supports in the NDIS. I think that’s a good thing for families. I’m Yos, an NDIS behaviour support practitioner working with young people aged 12 to 20 across Western Sydney, South West Sydney and the Illawarra, and here’s what I’d want every family to know about 0110, including how to check a provider before you sign.

What is registration group 0110?

0110 is the NDIS registration group for Specialist Positive Behaviour Support. It covers the work an NDIS behaviour support practitioner does: the functional behaviour assessment, the behaviour support plan, and the training and coaching that help the people around the young person use that plan.

Registration groups are four-digit codes the NDIS uses to sort supports. You can read how the other groups work in our guide to NDIS registration group codes.

Who is allowed to deliver 0110 supports?

Two things have to be true, and the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission checks both.

1. The provider must be registered for 0110. The NDIS Commission’s participant fact sheet is clear on this. Everyone must use a registered specialist behaviour support provider, even if the plan is self-managed or plan-managed.
2. The practitioner must be someone the NDIS Commission considers suitable. Practitioners are assessed against the Positive Behaviour Support Capability Framework. Until that assessment is done, they can’t do functional behaviour assessments or write behaviour support plans.

So when you’re choosing, you’re checking two things: the provider and the person. Both matter.

How is 0110 funded in a young person’s plan?

Behaviour support is paid from the Behaviour Support budget in the NDIS plan. On older plans it’s called Improved Relationships. It usually sits in Capacity Building and is often stated, which means it can only be spent on behaviour support. Our guide to stated vs flexible supports explains what that means in practice.

If behaviour support isn’t in your young person’s plan yet, you usually raise it at the planning meeting or a plan review, with evidence from their doctor or psychologist. Our free 8-step NDIS access guide covers how to ask for it.

What does 0110 support actually include?

• A functional behaviour assessment. Working out what the behaviour is doing for the young person, through conversations, records, observation and simple data.
• An interim behaviour support plan, when there’s an immediate need. The Commission expects this within 1 month of the provider being engaged.
• A comprehensive behaviour support plan, built on the assessment, within 6 months.
• Training and coaching for you, carers, school staff and support workers, so the plan holds up at 7pm on a hard night.
• Review. Plans are reviewed at least every 12 months, or sooner if things change.
• Restrictive practices. If a plan includes regulated restrictive practices, it’s lodged with the NDIS Commission and has to include a plan to reduce and remove them over time.

How do you check a provider before you sign?

You can check both parts yourself, for free, in about 5 minutes. I’d do it every time.

• Search the provider’s name on the NDIS Commission’s provider register. Their page lists every registration group they hold. Look for “Specialist Positive Behaviour Support”.
• Ask the provider for the name of the practitioner who’ll do the work, then check that person on the NDIS Commission’s list of behaviour support practitioners.
• Ask who will actually visit your young person. Make sure the suitable practitioner is the one doing the assessment and writing the plan.

Common mistakes with 0110

The most common one I see is families assuming a plan-managed or self-managed budget lets them use any provider for behaviour support. It doesn’t. You always need a registered provider for specialist behaviour support.

The second is paying for a “behaviour plan” written by someone who isn’t a suitable NDIS behaviour support practitioner. It might still have good ideas in it, but it won’t meet NDIS Commission requirements.

The third is not asking about restrictive practices early. If your young person’s supports already include any, ask how they’ll be reviewed and faded. You have a right to know.

Frequently asked questions

What does registration group 0110 mean on the NDIS? It’s the code for Specialist Positive Behaviour Support: functional behaviour assessments, behaviour support plans, and training the people who use those plans.

Can I use any provider for behaviour support if I’m plan-managed? No. The NDIS Commission says everyone must use a registered specialist behaviour support provider, whether the plan is NDIA-managed, plan-managed or self-managed.

Is 0110 the same as Improved Relationships? They’re connected. 0110 is the registration group the provider holds. Improved Relationships is the older name for the budget the support is paid from, now called Behaviour Support on newer plans.

How do I check if a provider is registered for 0110? Search their name on the NDIS Commission’s provider register. Their listing shows every registration group they hold.

This guide is general information, checked against NDIS Commission guidance on 3 November 2026. Rules change, so confirm current requirements with the NDIS Commission before making decisions.