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Under the new Act, registered providers will need to meet certain governance obligations.

Our Provider Governance Policy outlines our expectations of providers and guiding principles of good governance. It includes:

• definitions and principles of good governance
• provider governance obligations
• how we collect provider governance information  
• how we respond to provider governance risks.

Joint letter from the Chief Medical Officer Professor Anthony Lawler and Commissioner Liz Hefren-Webb to Board Chairs, Residential Aged Care Providers on winter preparedness in residential aged care.

These workplace standards posters demonstrate the strengthened Standards and what they mean for aged care providers and workers. You can print these out and display them around your workplace.

These workplace standards posters demonstrate the strengthened Standards and what they mean for aged care providers and workers. You can print these out and display them around your workplace.

These workplace standards posters demonstrate the strengthened Standards and what they mean for aged care providers and workers. You can print these out and display them around your workplace.

These workplace standards posters demonstrate the strengthened Standards and what they mean for aged care providers and workers. You can print these out and display them around your workplace.

These workplace standards posters demonstrate the strengthened Standards and what they mean for aged care providers and workers. You can print these out and display them around your workplace.

These workplace standards posters demonstrate the strengthened Standards and what they mean for workers in residential aged care. You can print these out and display them around your workplace. 

The storyboards use pictures to explain aged care, your rights and what to do if your rights aren’t being met.

We’ve developed a tailorable poster for you to edit with your own local details, and print and display at community notice boards or waiting areas.

If you’re thinking about accessing aged care services for you or your family, this guide will help you talk to family, friends and community about aged care and your rights. 

The storyboards use pictures to explain aged care, your rights and what to do if your rights aren’t being met.

This visual scenario and supporting user guide has been designed to support aged care workers with information about eating and drinking with acknowledged risk (EDAR). It explains the best practice and practical strategies that providers should use when implementing EDAR in their service.

We visit aged care services as part of our role as the national regulator. Visits are an opportunity for us to work with providers to make sure older people are getting the best care possible.

This flyer explains what you can expect when we visit, including:

• what happens we when visit
• what you can expect from us
• what can you do to ensure a successful visit.

This handy checklist will help providers and workers understand their obligations under the Strengthened Standards and will also provide links to other resources on the Quality Standards.   

We have released a suite of fact sheets to help providers, aged care workers, and other stakeholders understand the new strengthened Quality Standards and their obligations in meeting them .

The strengthened Quality Standards will come into effect in line with the commencement of the new Aged Care Act.

This fact sheet is a quick reference guide which gives providers an overview of why there are different registration categories, what this means for them in practice, and how they can support your workers.

These conversation cards will help you engage workers with key concepts in each Standard.  Workers can use the questions on each card as prompts for explaining how they apply the Standards in practice.

When printing double sided, please select short edge for the correct format.

These black and white versions of our conversation cards will help you engage workers with key concepts in each Standard.  Workers can use the questions on each card as prompts for explaining how they apply the Standards in practice.

When printing double sided, please select short edge for the correct format.

Outbreak management planning is a key part of infection prevention and control. This document supports both the development of a new outbreak management plan (OMP) and the quality assurance of existing plans. It details common OMP sections to get you started as you tailor your OMP to your service.

This resource may refer to information that will be updated from 1 July 2025 to align with the new Aged Care Act and Quality Standards.