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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 are 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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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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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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Advocacy groups lobby to halt imminent deportation of deaf Bhutanese teen

SBS News
Friday 12th April, 2019
Advocacy groups representing migrants and refugees in Australia have sent a letter to Immigration Minister David Coleman questioning the legitimacy of the decision to refuse a Bhutanese family permanent residency
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We’ve Got This: Parenting with a Disability

Eliza Hull
ABC RN Life Matters
Monday 22nd October, 2018
We’ve Got This: Parenting with a Disability is a new ABC radio series produced by Eliza Hull. Eliza has a neurological condition 'Charcot Marie Tooth', and she’s the ABC’s 2018
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Hand In Hand Parent Meeting Report

Parenting Research Centre
Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
Wednesday 19th September, 2018
Positive Powerful Parents is a self advocacy group for parents with intellectual disability. Last month they hosted a parent meeting. 17 parents with intellectual disability from all over Victoria were
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Securing their future

State Trustees & Office of the Public Advocate
Wednesday 20th July, 2016

Caring for a person who has a decision-making disability can be both challenging and rewarding, however, you may be naturally concerned about what will happen, once you are no longer…

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Royal Commission into Family Violence report

Royal Commission into Family violence
Wednesday 30th March, 2016

The report is the culmination of a 13-month comprehensive inquiry into Victoria’s response to family violence by the Royal Commission. The Commission’s 227 recommendations are directed at improving the foundations…

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