August 2010 PWD recommends that Stronger Together 2 and a revised Better Together must ensure there are mechanisms for enabling people with disability and their representative organisations can actively and equally participate in development, monitoring and review of laws, policies…
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Productivity Commission Inquiry Into Long Term Disability Care And Support
The Australian Government has asked the Productivity Commission to undertake a public inquiry into a long-term disability care and support scheme which will become the National Disability Insurance Scheme. This Submission uses the experience and strength of PWD to provide…
Public Consultation On Proposed Youth And Community Services Regulation
July 2010 Currently no policy, procedure or guideline exists to provide guidance to the Licensees/Licensed Managers or staff of licensed boarding houses on the meaning and application of the YACS Act, licence conditions and Regulations, or on specific issues of…
Summary Submission: Productivity Commission Inquiry On Disability Care And Support
The PWD position on the proposal for the delivery of a new disability care and support scheme that operates by directing resources at eligible individuals with disability will be articulated by a set of principles, which will also tie the…
Stronger Together Consultation
This review of Stronger Together provides a timely opportunity to ensure that CRPD is the overarching framework for Stronger Together. Using the CRPD as a framework would provide surety that the NSW Government was meeting its human rights obligations in…
Review Of The National Standards For Disability Services
A primary purpose of the Standards and the Objectives and Principles of the Disability Services Act was to move towards a service system in which people with disability were at the centre and could access the elements of care and…
Inquiry Into The Provision Of Education To Students With A Disability Or Special Needs
PWD welcomes the NSW Legislative Council’s General Purpose Standing Committee No. 2 Inquiry into the Provision of Education for Students with a Disability or Special Needs. PWD will address some longstanding issues and concerns that PWD has about the NSW…
Response to the Inquiry into the NSW Taxi Industry
The ability to live independently and access ones own community is a fundamental human right. For many people with disability taxi transportation is the safest and most accessible form of transport. However, taxi transportation is not without its problems. As…
RACGP: Review of Standards for General Practice – Joint Submission
Our collective view is that, while RACGP has made commendable efforts to encourage its members to ensure the highest quality of service to all patients, there remain significant gaps in the quality of service delivered to large parts of our…
NSW Legislative Council’s Inquiry into Substitute decision-making for people lacking capacity – Joint Submission
August 2009 The issues we wish to raise before the Committee are of very long-standing concern. At various points over at least the past 10 years reform proposals to address some or other of these matters have been developed at…