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‘I needed help, instead I was punished’: Abuse and Neglect of Prisoners with Disabilities in Australia

Kriti Sharma
Human Rights Watch
Tuesday 6th February, 2018
People with disabilities, particularly a cognitive or psychosocial disability, are overrepresented in the criminal justice system in Australia—comprising around 18 percent of the country’s population, but almost 50 percent of
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Access to health services by Australians with disability

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Sunday 3rd December, 2017

People with disability use a range of mainstream health services—such as GPs, medical specialists and dentists. Some experience difficulties in accessing these services, such as unacceptable or lengthy waiting times,…

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Support Coordination: A changing landscape

Summer Foundation
Monday 11th December, 2017
Support Coordination will play a critical role in ensuring that National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants are able to use their NDIS Plan to live a good life. This is
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You Can Ask Me Anything

Jewish Care Vic
Saturday 2nd December, 2017
Some topics of conversation are off limits…right? Maybe not.. Clients of Jewish Care’s Disability Services were posed a range of questions they wouldn’t usually be asked. You’ll be surprised by
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Jeremy The Dud

Robot Army
Wednesday 1st November, 2017
Jeremy the Dud is a comedy set in a world where everyone has a disability, and those that don't are treated with the same prejudice, stigma and condescending attitudes people
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Restrictive Intervention Data System cohort follow-up study

Professor Ben Richardson
Senior Practitioner - Disability
Tuesday 31st October, 2017
This project investigated the prevalence of persistent restraint and its predictors among individuals with a disability accessing residential services in Victoria. Taken together the results suggest that people who are
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Preventing and Responding to Abuse: Guidance for Victorian disability service providers’ Resources

Disability Services Commissioner
Wednesday 1st November, 2017

The Office of the Disability Services Commissioner held a conference called Preventing and Responding to Abuse: Guidance for Victorian disability service providers’ on 12th September 2017. It was well attended…

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Decision-making Controls for Sustainability — National Disability Insurance Scheme Access

Cheryl Wilson, Deanne Allan, Tessa Osborne, Matt Owen, Fei Gao and Andrew Rodrigues
Australian National Audits Office
Thursday 19th October, 2017

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of controls being implemented and/or developed by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) to ensure National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)

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Unfitness to Plead Final report

Unfitness to Plead Project
Melbourne Social Equity Institute
Thursday 7th September, 2017
Unfitness to plead laws in Australia have been widely recognised as requiring reform and modernisation. The Unfitness to Plead Project sought to develop practical and legal options to address the
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Factors associated with the use of mechanical restraint in disability services

Lynne S. Webber, Ben Richardson, Kathryn L. White, Padraig Fitzpatrick, Keith McVilly & Sheridan Forster
Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, DOI: 10.3109/1366825
Wednesday 17th May, 2017
Mechanical restraint refers to the use of materials or devices to restrict the behaviours of a person with a disability, where the restraint is neither for therapeutic purposes or required
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19 Stories of inclusion and the right to independent living

Belonging Matters
Monday 2nd October, 2017
Why 19 stories? Because Article 19 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities refers to the right to live independently and participate in the community.
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Whatever it takes: Access for women with disabilities to domestic and family violence services

ANROWS
Thursday 7th September, 2017
This research report aims to help tertiary response services to respond effectively to the needs of women with disabilities. Women with disabilities who have experienced violence seek help and support
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