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Submission to the National Disability Strategy: Beyond 2020 Stage 2 Consultations
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posted on 2021-04-01, 05:02 authored by Laura Davy, ANNE KAVANAGHANNE KAVANAGH, HELEN DICKINSON, Gwynnyth Llewellyn, GEMMA CAREY, DENNIS PETRIE, PETER BUTTERWORTH, Jennifer Smith-Merry, HANNAH BADLAND, Roger StancliffeThis submission was led by Dr Laura Davy on behalf of investigators within the Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health (CRE-DH) funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council, in October 2020
The Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health (CRE-DH) aims to identify cost-effective policies to improve the health of people with disabilities in Australia.
Given the majority stakeholder view that the vision and
outcome areas of the current National Disability Strategy
are still the right ones, this submission focuses on the
implementation and governance of the next iteration of
the Strategy.
The submission addresses the
following three areas:
1. Leadership of people with disability
Facilitating the participation of people with disability and their representative organisations in the development and implementation of law and policy that impacts them is an obligation under Article 4 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). People with disability must be represented in all aspects of the Strategy’s governance structures and agenda setting and decision-making processes.
2. Coordination of the Strategy
Reviews of the current Strategy showed that it was not
effectively implemented across all levels and portfolios
of government. Outlining government responsibilities
is not enough; the effective coordination of government
responsibilities for implementing the Strategy by an
appropriately resourced and representative agency or
body is also necessary.
3. Quality data collection and reporting
Collecting quality data to inform policy development and
implementation is an obligation under Article 31 of the
CRPD. Funding will need to be allocated to developing
suitable national data frameworks and to the oversight,
collection and analysis of this data. The CRE-DH has
developed the Disability and Wellbeing Monitoring
Framework to measure and track inequalities between
people with and without disability in relation to the
social determinants of health and wellbeing which may
be a valuable input to the development of a monitoring
framework for the next Strategy.
Further information
www.credh.org.au
