Disability Strategic Policy Framework

Directorate: Child and Family

Division: Strategy Policy and Commissioning

Project summary

Focus Area:

• Improving access to mainstream service through better systems and processes
  

Project objective

To develop a DCJ disability policy framework to articulate outcomes for people with disability in contact with the OOHC and child protection system and to underpin longer-term strategies, incorporating sector consultation issues and outcomes.

The challenge

1. 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.
2. 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 OOHC in NSW (FIC).

What would success look like?

1. Publication of a disability policy framework to articulate outcomes for people with disability in contact with the OOHC and child protection system and to underpin longer-term strategies, incorporating sector consultation issues and outcomes.
   
   
2. The framework will inform policy and practice and supports children and young people with disability to access responsive services. The policy framework will guide/underpin longer-term strategies to improve service delivery.  

Status report

Current Status: Planned/Proposed

Date: July 2022

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