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During 2012-16, disability advocates reported assisting 76 people with legal issues in an average three-month period. Disability advocacy Issue Legal Number 76 people on average per quarter Trend ▲ increasing…
During 2012-16, disability advocates assisted 77 people with accommodation issues in an average three month period. Disability advocacy Issue Accommodation Number 77 people on average per quarter Trend ≈ generally…
During 2012-16, in any given three-month period disability advocates, on average, assisted 160 people with education issues. Disability advocacy Issue Education Number 160 people on average per quarter Trend ≈…
Disability advocacy Issue Disability Services and the NDIS Number 184 people on average per quarter Trend ▲ increasing Rights under the CRPD Governments will ensure: persons with disabilities have…
The quarterly data collection nominates 12 advocacy topics for organisations to record the type of issues faced by people receiving disability advocacy, plus a miscellaneous category of ‘other’. Over…
On average over four years, disability advocacy organisations recorded 3.3 per cent of clients as being from an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background. On average over four years, disability…
Of the people whose age was recorded, the majority receiving disability advocacy services are aged 25-64 (figure 4). People receiving disability advocacy services aged under 65 are more prevalent than…
Of those clients whose gender was recorded, organisations reported providing services to slightly more men and boys than women and girls over the four year period (figure 2). This pattern…
Victorian disability advocacy Quarterly Data Collection includes questions on the gender, age and cultural background of people receiving disability advocacy services.
Between July 2012 and June 2016, in any given three month period, disability advocacy organisations reported providing services, on average, to 892 people, of whom: 418 were classed as new…
The data in this report applies only to people recorded as part of the Victorian Government’s Disability Advocacy Program. Organisations providing the data may support additional clients using other funding,…
Disability advocacy is acting, speaking or writing to promote, protect and defend the human rights of people with disability. Disability advocacy helps ensure the human and legal rights of people
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