SIRS priorities, the seven strengthened Quality Standards, the Statement of Rights, care minutes and Support at Home. Ask Mandy in plain English and get an answer from the Aged Care Act 2024 and the Rules made under it, with every source listed.
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Aged Care Act 2024Aged Care Rules 2025Quality Standards
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Current rules onlyRe-checked as they change
Legislation alert New
Aged Care Act 2024 in forceStrengthened Quality Standards apply
The rules keep changing for aged care teamsMandy keeps up, so you do not have to
Aged Care Act 2024 in forceReplaces the 1997 Act; Aged Care Rules 2025 and strengthened Quality Standards apply.
Support at Home replaces Home Care PackagesNew service list, classifications and participant contributions.
Aged Care and Nurses Award rates increasedNew minimum rates from the first full pay period in July.
How Ask Mandy works for aged care teams
Ask. Check. Act.
Type the question the way your care manager asks it at handover. Mandy checks the Aged Care Act 2024, the Rules, the strengthened Quality Standards and SIRS, then answers in plain English with every source listed, ready to save to the incident or care record.
SIRSpriority, timeframe and what the report must contain
Quality Standardsthe seven strengthened standards mapped to your policies
Rights and consentthe Statement of Rights, restrictive practices and decision making
The legislation aged care teams rely on, answered from the source.
Mandy does not search the open internet. She answers from the new Act, the Rules and the standards your service is assessed against, embedded in full and kept current, and names the source in every answer.
Commonwealth
Aged care
Aged Care Act 2024
The new Act in force from 1 November 2025, the Aged Care Rules 2025 and the strengthened Quality Standards that sit under it.
Is an unexplained fall a Priority 1 SIRS report?
Commonwealth
Aged care
Serious Incident Response Scheme
Which incidents are reportable, the Priority 1 and Priority 2 timeframes, and what the Commission expects in the report.
Do we have 24 hours or 30 days for this one?
Commonwealth
Aged care
Support at Home Program
The home care program that replaced Home Care Packages from 1 July 2025: service lists, classifications and participant contributions.
What can a Support at Home budget pay for?
Commonwealth
Workforce
SCHADS Award
Classifications, minimum rates, penalties, broken shifts, sleepovers and minimum engagements for social and community services workers.
What rate applies to a sleepover shift?
Commonwealth
Privacy
Privacy Act 1988
The Australian Privacy Principles, health information handling and when information can be shared without consent.
Can we tell a family member what a client disclosed?
Commonwealth
Disability
NDIS Act 2013
Reasonable and necessary supports, provider obligations, and the Pricing Schedule, Practice Standards and Code of Conduct made under it.
Can we claim a short notice cancellation?
Also draws onStrengthened Aged Care Quality StandardsStatement of Rights and Code of ConductAged Care Award 2010 and Nurses Award 2020Care minutes and 24/7 RN guidance
Coverage grows with our customers. If your work relies on an Act or a state we do not list yet, tell us and we will add it to the roadmap. Every answer shows exactly which instrument it relied on, so you always know what was and was not checked.
What can aged care teams ask?
The questions aged care teams ask every week.
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Who is behind Ask Mandy
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Amar started as a support worker and now runs a disability support organisation with more than 16 SIL houses and a team of over 200. He built Mandy after watching his own staff paste client questions into public AI tools, because the sector had nothing that was safe, Australian and grounded in the legislation.
Straight answers to the things that decide whether a tool like this belongs in your organisation.
Does Mandy know the Aged Care Act 2024, not the old 1997 Act?
Yes. Mandy answers from the Aged Care Act 2024 that commenced on 1 November 2025, the Aged Care Rules 2025 and the strengthened Quality Standards. Where an answer turns on a transitional rule, she says so and cites it.
Can Mandy help with an Assessment against the strengthened standards?
Mandy can explain what each of the seven strengthened standards requires and what evidence the Commission looks for, cited to the standard. Your quality team still owns the assessment, but they start from the source rather than from memory.
Is this legal advice?
No. Ask Mandy gives you information from the legislation, rules and official guidance, in plain English and with every source listed. Decisions about a person's care, rights or claims stay with the professionals responsible for them.
How current is the legislation?
Mandy answers from the current versions of the Acts, rules, standards and price guides she covers, and they are re-checked as they change. Every answer names the instrument and the date it was checked, so you can confirm the version yourself.
Is my client's information safe?
Your account, conversations and case notes are stored encrypted on servers in Australia and are never used to train AI models. Team permissions decide who sees what, and every view, change and export is logged. See the security section above.
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