This review offers an outstanding opportunity to recognise that role and better integrate it into the future Victorian disability ecosystem.
October 29, 2021
Carers Victoria welcomed the opportunity to make a submission to the Review of the Disability Act 2006.
Carers Victoria’s submission recognises that the disability ‘landscape’ has gone through significant changes over recent years with the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, changes to quality and safeguarding frameworks and an increasing and welcome emphasis on recognising and empowering Victorians living with disability.
What has, however, remained constant is the central role of unpaid carers in supporting Victorians living with disability.
This review offers an outstanding opportunity to recognise that role and better integrate it into the future Victorian disability ecosystem.
Just like Victorians with disabilities, this group of carers are diverse, but they report common issues.
In reviewing the Disability Act and setting the new frame for Victoria into the future there is a unique opportunity to address some of these and build a future in which carers are better enabled to support Victorians living with disability to live their best lives.
To read the full submission, visit: https://www.carersvictoria.org.au/…/2626-carers-vic…
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