Disability Inclusion and Access Guidelines

Directorate: Child and Family

Division: Strategy Policy and Commissioning

Project summary

Focus Area:

• Improving access to mainstream services through better systems and processes.

Project objective

To support DCJ staff to embed inclusion and accessibility for people with disability when developing and reviewing policies, mandates, programs, processes, guidelines, tools and other Department of Community and Justice (DCJ) resources.

The challenge

1. There is currently minimal guidance to support DCJ staff to understand, develop and deliver inclusive and accessible services for people with disability.
2. DCJ has a responsibility to provide inclusive and accessible services for parents with disability and children with disability and their families/carers.
3. There is a need for DCJ to address gaps in service provision for people with disability in contact with child and family funded and provided services and create a broad policy framework to encompass this.
4. DCJ needs to be responsive to developments in the broader policy context, including the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability and the Family Is Culture Independent Review of Aboriginal Children and Young People in Out of Home Care in NSW (FIC).

What will success look like?

Increased proportion of DCJ policies, mandates, programs, processes, guidelines, tools and other DCJ resources that incorporate consideration of disability.

Status report

Current Status: Progressing

Date: September 2022

Status Notes:

• April to June 2022 - Review of Guidelines and consultation with internal stakeholders.