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Advance Your Advocacy Practice session: Understanding the Victorian Child Protection System

Disability Advocates are highly likely to work with clients who are navigating the child protection system as rates of child removal for parents with disabilities is up to 10 times…

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Parents with disability and their experiences of child protection systems

University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Western Sydney University
Disability Royal Commission
Tuesday 11th July, 2023
The report states that the combination of disability and risk is one of the most explicit forms of discrimination parents with disability face. This is magnified for First Nations parents
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Charter of Rights of Parents with Disability in their interactions with Child Protection System

DARU
Wednesday 26th April, 2023
The Charter was released in February 2023 and aims to improve outcomes for parents and carers with disabilities who come into contact with Child Protection in Victoria. The Charter recognises
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Non-verbal young boy in state care can’t access $27,000 of his NDIS funding, grandmother says By

Katri Uibu
ABC
Thursday 23rd March, 2023
"It is criminal. It is so abusive. If you are going to remove a child from care, particularly a child with a disability, you have an ethical responsibility to ensure
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Charter Of Rights For Parents And Carers With Disabilities Involved With Child Protection In Victoria

Department Health and Human Services
Friday 10th February, 2023

The Charter aims to improve outcomes for parents and carers with disabilities who come into contact with Child Protection in Victoria. The Charter recognises that parents and carers have the…

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A quest for dignified health care for women with disabilities

WHO News
Friday 2nd December, 2022
Sexual and reproductive health services are often inaccessible to women with disabilities for many reasons, including attitudes from health providers and a lack of physical access. In this story, a
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Connecting the dots: Understanding the DFV experiences of children and young people with disability within and across sectors

Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety
Wednesday 28th September, 2022
This report highlights implications for improving policy and practice across intersecting disability, child and violence domains. It begins to address one of the evidence gaps identified in the 2020 interim
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Children with disabilities are being exposed to violence at astonishing rates, yet are falling through the cracks

Amber Schultz
Crikey
Thursday 29th September, 2022
The impacts are immense: there's up to a year-long wait for support services, with families struggling to find accessible housing or use disability support services while in crisis. Australia's child
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Domestic violence: Disabled children in Australia disproportionately impacted

AAP
SBS News
Thursday 29th September, 2022
Around 30 per cent of Australian children impacted by domestic violence have a disability. Australian children with disabilities are experiencing disproportionate rates of domestic and family violence and being failed
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Parents With Intellectual Disability Need More Support

University of Sydney
India education Diary
Saturday 20th August, 2022
With the right help, parents with intellectual disability can and do learn what it takes to be a good parent. But their efforts to keep their family together can be
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People with intellectual disability can be parents and caregivers too – but the NDIS doesn’t support them

Susan Collings, Gabrielle Hindmarsh, Margaret Spencer and Nikki Wedgwood
The Conversation
Tuesday 16th August, 2022
Child protection statistics are a sober reminder of the vulnerability these families face if they fall between the cracks of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and mainstream support services.
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Regulated restrictive practices with children and young people with disability: Practice guide

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
Thursday 15th April, 2021

This guide and the associated decision trees focus on the use of regulated restrictive practices (RRP) with children and young people aged under 18 years who are participants of the…

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