Links to External Policy Documents and Reports
Below are links to reports and resources from other organisations and research bodies. Please note that these links go to external websites not owned by AFDO, and as such, some of these websites may not be accessible.
Abuse and Violence against people with disability
- AHRC Report: A Future Without Violence: Quality, safeguarding and oversight to prevent and address violence against people with disability in institutional settings, June 2018
- NSW Ombudsman Report on abuse and neglect of vulnerable adults in NSW – the need for action, November 2018
- National Disability Abuse and Neglect Hotline data – January to June 2018
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Experiences of Violence and Personal Safety of People with Disability, 2016
Deaths of people with disability in residential care
Disability
- VCOSS Report & Factsheets: Empowered Lives, Securing Change for Victorians with Disability, Sept 2018
Disability Support Pension (DSP)
- Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) Report on the audit of the Disability Support Pension, Sept 2018
Justice
- Law Council or Australia – The Justice Project: a national, comprehensive review into the state of access to justice in Australia for people experiencing significant disadvantage, Link to disability section of report, August 2018
LGBTI
Mental Health
- Recommendations from the National Roundtable on the Mental Health of People with Intellectual Disability, 2018 Easy Read Version
- Mental Health Australia NDIS Psychosocial Pathway Project Report, May 2018
Mobility – Scooters and Wheelchairs
- Senate Report: Need for regulation of mobility scooters, also known as motorised wheelchairs, September 2018
NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme)
- Implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme and the provision of disability services in New South Wales, December 2018
- Mental Health Australia NDIS Psychosocial Pathway Project Report, May 2018
- Down Syndrome 2018 national survey by Down Syndrome Australia (DSA), 2018
- Qld Audit Office: Access to the National Disability Insurance Scheme for people with impaired decision-making capacity, 2018
Public Transport – Accessibility
Telecommunications – Accessibility
United Nations
- UN Report on Disability and Sustainable Development Goals, December 2018