Aged Care Compliance Software for Australian Providers
Track ACQSC Quality Standards, SIRS reporting, AHPRA registrations, NDIS Worker Screening, and audit evidence in one platform built for aged care.
Aged care compliance software (sometimes searched as ACQSC compliance software or ACQS compliance software) helps Australian residential and home care providers manage ACQSC Quality Standards, SIRS reporting, AHPRA registrations, NDIS Worker Screening, and audit evidence under the strengthened Aged Care Act 2024.
The aged care compliance burden
Australian aged care providers operate under intense regulatory scrutiny. The strengthened standards raise the bar every year.
Worker credentials in spreadsheets
AHPRA registrations, NDIS Worker Screening checks, and training records tracked manually across files and folders create gaps and compliance risk.
SIRS reporting pressure
The Serious Incident Response Scheme requires strict timeframes. Missing a deadline or misclassifying an incident is a compliance breach.
ACQSC audit readiness
Unannounced audits mean you need current evidence across all eight Aged Care Quality Standards at all times — not just when the notice arrives.
No visibility across facilities
Multi-facility providers struggle to see compliance status, worker credentials, and incident status across every site from one view.
Built for Australian aged care regulation
NovoCove maps directly to the frameworks that govern your sector.
- Aged Care Quality Standards — all eight standards (including strengthened 2025)
- Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS)
- AHPRA registration for nurses and allied health
- NDIS Practice Standards and Worker Screening
- Quality indicators and care minutes reporting
- Open disclosure and consumer feedback obligations
NovoCove helps you organise compliance work. It does not provide official regulatory approval and does not guarantee compliance.
Everything you need for aged care compliance
NovoCove brings your aged care compliance activities together so they are easier to track and maintain.
AHPRA registration tracking
Monitor registration status and renewal dates for enrolled nurses, registered nurses, and allied health professionals with automated alerts before expiry.
NDIS Worker Screening
Track NDIS Worker Screening checks and expiry dates with renewal alerts to ensure every worker providing NDIS supports remains compliant.
SIRS reporting workflows
Structured incident categorisation, deadline tracking, and full audit trails from logging through to resolution for ACQSC reporting.
Aged Care Quality Standards evidence
Link documents, training records, incident notes, and assessment reports directly to all eight Aged Care Quality Standards for instant audit retrieval.
Workforce compliance tracking
Monitor qualifications, certifications, and mandatory training for personal care workers, nurses, allied health, and support staff in one view.
Automated expiry alerts
Receive alerts before AHPRA registrations, NDIS screening, first aid, manual handling, and infection control training expire.
Multi-facility dashboards
See compliance status across all residential, home care, and community services from one dashboard with drill-down to individual facilities.
Quality indicators and care minutes
Support data collection and reporting workflows for mandatory quality indicator programs and care minutes reporting.
Top-rated aged care compliance software in Australia
What sets NovoCove apart on cost, depth of regulator coverage, and the day-to-day workflow of an Australian aged care provider.
Aged care providers searching for the best aged care compliance software Australia are typically balancing two things at once: the strengthened standards under the Aged Care Act 2024 and ACQSC Quality Standards, and the cost of running a residential or home care service on thin margins. NovoCove is built for the Australian aged care sector specifically — not as a feature module inside a generic GRC suite.
Aged care compliance software cost in Australia
NovoCove is priced transparently per organisation rather than per bed. The Starter plan at $89 per month covers a single residential site, with multi-site pricing from $249 per month. Compare that to the per-bed pricing model used by some aged-care-only platforms (Statura Care is published at roughly $9–$27 per bed per month, which means a 100-bed facility pays $900–$2,700 per month) and to the enterprise GRC suites that quote six figures annually. For a small-to-medium residential provider, NovoCove delivers the same SIRS, credential, and audit-export functionality for a fraction of the cost.
Why NovoCove for top-rated aged care compliance
Three things put NovoCove at the top of the shortlist for Australian aged care: (1) native SIRS reporting with the eight reportable incident categories pre-mapped, (2) AHPRA registration tracking and NDIS Worker Screening with automated expiry alerts at 90, 60, 30, 14, 7, 1, and 0 days, and (3) one-click ACQSC audit evidence export that pulls every linked policy, training record, incident report, and corrective action into a single folder bundle. None of this requires a configuration project.
Aged Care Act 2024 and ACQSC alignment
The strengthened Aged Care Act took full effect on 1 July 2025, and the ACQSC Quality Standards now carry the weight of statutory obligations rather than voluntary accreditation. NovoCove maps directly to the Quality Standards and to the SIRS reporting requirements under the new Act, so your evidence trail — from the board down to the care worker — is always current and queryable. For APRA-regulated providers (banks, insurers, superannuation trustees) the obligations register also covers CPS 230 Operational Risk Management, which took full effect on the same date.
ACQSC compliance software: how the strengthened Quality Standards map
ACQSC compliance software is the category of platforms that helps Australian residential and home care providers evidence their obligations under the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards. The eight standards (Standard 1 the Consumer, Standard 2 the Organisation, Standard 3 the Care and Services, Standard 4 the Environment, Standard 5 Clinical Care, Standard 6 Food and Nutrition, Standard 7 the Residential Community, Standard 8 Organisational Governance) are statutory from 1 July 2025. NovoCove maps every obligation to one of the eight standards, links the evidence, and produces the ACQSC evidence pack in one click — the workflow providers relied on voluntarily under the old standards is now the workflow they rely on to satisfy statutory requirements.
Preparing for an ACQSC audit in 2026
ACQSC audits under the strengthened standards are unannounced, evidence-led, and increasingly focused on governance (Standard 8) and clinical care (Standards 3 and 5). The strongest preparation is year-round: every obligation is mapped to a strengthened Quality Standard, the evidence is attached to the obligation (not the folder), and the audit trail (who uploaded, when, version, review history) is part of the record. On the day, the compliance team opens the evidence register, filters by Standard, and exports the evidence pack — PDF index plus folder bundle with each linked document — in under five minutes. The four key things to verify before the audit: (1) the obligations register is current, (2) every document is linked to its obligation, (3) SIRS history is queryable by incident, (4) the workforce compliance evidence (AHPRA, NDIS Worker Screening, mandatory training) is current and complete.
An alternative to Statura Care, Ozler Care, and CompliSpace
If you are evaluating Statura Care, Ozler Care, or the enterprise-grade CompliSpace/Ideagen platform, the things to compare are: published flat-rate pricing vs per-bed or quote-only, native SIRS reporting vs configuration required, mobile app for care workers vs desktop-only, and one-click ACQSC evidence export vs manual folder assembly. NovoCove wins on each of those, and is the only AU platform that supports both aged care and ECEC under a single subscription — useful for providers that operate both residential aged care and community-based children's services under the same parent organisation.
ACQSC audit evidence register: aged care software that proves provenance
An unannounced ACQSC audit means every linked policy, training record, incident report, and corrective action needs to be retrievable in minutes — not assembled under pressure.
The aged care providers who handle ACQSC audits cleanly have one thing in common: a structured ACQSC audit evidence register rather than a shared drive of PDFs. Every obligation is mapped to a strengthened Quality Standard (Standard 1 the Consumer, Standard 2 the Organisation, Standard 3 the Care and Services, Standard 4 the Environment, Standard 5 Clinical Care, Standard 6 Food and Nutrition, Standard 7 the Residential Community, Standard 8 Organisational Governance). The evidence is attached to the obligation, not the folder. The audit trail (who uploaded, when, version) is part of the record.
On the day of the audit, the compliance team opens the ACQSC evidence register, filters by Standard, and generates an evidence pack — PDF index plus folder bundle with each linked document attached. Most residential facilities have the full pack ready in under five minutes. Compare that to the typical pre-NovoCove workflow: a six-person team, two weeks, and a shared drive that nobody can navigate under pressure.
The same evidence register drives the SIRS audit software workflow: every SIRS notification, classification, deadline, and corrective action is part of the same audit trail, and the 7-year retention is enforced by the platform (not promised by a policy document). For the SIRS reporting detail — the 8 reportable categories, the 24-hour / 30-day clocks, the 60/90-day investigation windows — see the SIRS incident reporting guide.
Aged care workforce compliance and mandatory training tracker
The workforce side of aged care compliance is the second largest piece of an audit defence. NovoCove acts as the aged care mandatory training compliance tracker for the full staff profile: AHPRA registration for RNs, ENs, and allied health (with renewal alerts at 90, 60, 30, 14, 7, 1, and 0 days before expiry), NDIS Worker Screening (the 5-year cycle, with the 5 states that issue it directly), mandatory training modules (manual handling, infection control, falls prevention, dementia care, palliative care, medication competency), and the 215-minute care minutes obligation under the strengthened standards. Multi-site groups see coverage across every facility in one view, with drill-down to individual staff.
For providers evaluating workforce compliance software in the aged care space, the shortlist usually comes down to four things: native AHPRA registration tracking (not a custom field), NDIS Worker Screening with the 5-year cycle handled automatically, mandatory training renewal alerts by module, and an evidence pack that proves the training was completed on the day the auditor asks. NovoCove wins on each of those, and the pricing is published on the pricing page (Starter at $89 per month, multi-site from $249 per month) rather than per-bed.
Who uses NovoCove for aged care compliance
Residential aged care facilities
Track worker compliance, SIRS reporting, and ACQSC audit readiness across all standards.
Home care providers
Monitor worker credentials, visit documentation, and compliance for community-based services.
Community care services
Manage NDIS compliance, worker screening, and incident reporting for community programs.
Multi-facility groups
Central compliance visibility across every residential facility and home care service.
Quality managers
Structured evidence management and continuous improvement tracking for governance committees.
Compliance officers
Automated tracking of worker credentials, policies, and regulatory deadlines.
Frequently asked questions
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