Disability Inclusion Action Planning resources
On this page:
- Positive community attitudes and behaviours
- Liveable communities
- Supporting access to meaningful employment
- Accessible systems and processes
The NSW Disability Inclusion Plan provides direction to government and a framework for partnership with people with disability, key agencies and members of the community.
Disability Inclusion Action Plans operationalise the four focus areas of the NSW Disability Inclusion Plan and provide an approach to addressing issues through engagement, planning and co-design of solutions.
The resources on this page are provided to assist in the development of actions targeting the 4 focus areas:
1. Positive community attitudes and behaviours
Changing community attitudes toward greater inclusion of people with disability
Family and Community Services has commissioned a review of the evidence on disability employment.
Attitudes toward, and beliefs about, people with disability are important determinants of social inclusion. Misconceptions, negative attitudes and a lack of knowledge can affect many aspects of life for people with disabilities, including employment opportunities.
Research on community attitudes toward inclusion of people with disabilities, and employer attitudes toward workers with disabilities, indicates that stigmatisation is still prevalent.
Changing negative community and employer attitudes toward people with disabilities, and challenging stigma, is likely to make a positive contribution toward greater inclusion. This report presents the current evidence concerning changing attitudes and beliefs about people with disability.
Other resources
- Australian Human Rights Commission - Disability Rights
- Don’t Dis My Ability
- Office for Disability in Victoria - Inclusive communication and consultation
- NSW Council for Intellectual Disability
- Video: Awkward No More Training Video (3:40)
- Video: Talk (part 1 of 2) - captioned and signed (5:40)
2. Liveable communities
Accessible tourism
Access to print and online information
- Access IQ
- Adobe Accessibility Support
- Ageing, Disability and Home Care - Accessibility
- Ai-Live Captioning *
- Australian Communications and Media Authority
- Australian Communications Consumer Action Network
- Australian Government Webguide - Accessibility & Usability
- Examples of best practice comms (using Easy Read):
- DCJ Accessibility
- How to create a large print document
- Media Access Australia
- Media Access Australia – Service Providers Accessibility Guide
- Microsoft Office Accessibility Support *
- NSW Government Agency Guide for Effective Communication for People with a Sensory Disability (Word & PDF)
- The Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities
- Vision Australia - Digital Access Resources
- Video: Web Accessibility DSS (3:21)
Access to environment
- AHRC Advisory Note on streetscape, public outdoor areas, fixtures, fittings and furniture
- Australian Network for Universal Housing Design (ANUHD)
- Creating Liveable Communities
- Guide Dogs NSW/ACT - Don't turn a blind eye campaign
- Liveable Housing Australia
- Video: Changing Places Solutions (2:06)
- Access to Private Vehicles – A Report by Prof. Simon Darcy and Tom Eley
Translation and Interpreting Services
- Deaf Society of NSW
- Multicultural NSW - interpreting and translation services including Auslan
- National Relay Service
- Telstra disability community program *
- Telstra TTY payphone service *
3. Supporting access to meaningful employment
- AHRC Workers with Mental Illness: a Practical Guide for Managers
- Australian Network on Disability (AND) *
- Department of Social Services - disability resources for employers
- Employment Assistance Fund
- Employment Assistance Fund fact sheet
- DCJ DEN factsheet - Ai-Live Captioning
- DCJ DEN factsheet - Assistive Technology and Equipment
- DCJ DEN factsheet - Resources for Employees with Disability
- DCJ DEN factsheet - Stepping Into Program
- DCJ Employment Forum - Summary Report
- JobAccess Australia
4. Accessible systems and processes
- AHRC Developing an effective DDA Action Plan
- AHRC Disability Discrimination Act action plans and action plan guides
- Australian Network on Disability - Disability Action Plan Development and Advice
- IAP2 Public Participation Spectrum
- Job Access: Being a disability confident organisation
- Job Access: How to create a Disability Action Plan