Question 1

How are SIL houses modelled in Checkbase?

Accepted Answer

A SIL house is a top-level entity - not a tag on a participant or a folder in a drive. Each house has its own document checklist mapped to the SIL Practice Standards: safe environment assessment, fire equipment log, dwelling registration, emergency evacuation plan, restrictive-practice authorisations, and more. Dwellings and vehicles are sub-records hanging off the house, each with their own document surface. Residents are linked via an assignment join table.

Question 2

What happens when a participant moves between houses?

Accepted Answer

Their file moves with them and the history stays intact. Resident assignments carry start and end dates, so when a participant transitions from one house to another, you keep the full occupancy record - who lived where, and when. The auditor can see current occupancy in one click without you reconstructing it from memory or old rosters.

Question 3

What is the house-level compliance score?

Accepted Answer

Each house rolls up its own number, so you can see your worst-performing house at a glance. The SIL certification audit goes house-by-house, so your dashboard does too. Instead of one blended org score that hides a problem house, you see exactly which house has a lapsed fire safety check or an out-of-date safe environment assessment.

Question 4

Do dwellings and vehicles get tracked separately?

Accepted Answer

Yes. A house can have multiple dwellings, and vehicles used to transport residents are tracked as their own sub-records - registration, insurance, roadworthy, and maintenance evidence. Keeping them as distinct surfaces under the parent house means nothing gets lost in a single catch-all folder, and each has its own expiry tracking.

Question 5

How does this connect to participant files and the audit?

Accepted Answer

Residents are assigned to houses via the join table, so the auditor sees the full picture - resident to house to evidence - in one click. House documents flow into the SIL evidence pack PDF as their own per-house sections, and the SIL audit lens on the dashboard rolls house compliance into your overall readiness score.

Question 6

Is this only useful if I run multiple houses?

Accepted Answer

No. Even a single-house SIL provider benefits from having the house modelled as a first-class entity with the right checklist - the certification audit asks the same house-level questions whether you run one house or twenty. Smaller providers actually get the most value, because they're least likely to have a compliance team assembling this by hand.

Every SIL house has its own compliance file.

The SIL audit goes house-by-house. Your tool should too.

A dedicated checklist for every house you run.

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See your worst-performing house in one number.

The auditor sees the full picture in one click.

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