Build the capacity of people experiencing disability to take responsibility for governing, managing, advising and delivering disability-specific and mainstream services.

Key steps:

• Require agencies and services that access government funding to work actively to ensure that people experiencing disability are in governance and decision-making roles, and involved in monitoring and evaluation processes.
• Resource the development of service providers and advocacy organisations run by and for people experiencing disability.
• Recruit and develop a workforce that includes people experiencing disability in all the services that impact on them.
• Strengthen the voice of people experiencing disability at the national level so they can make a fuller contribution to the development of legislation and policy.
• Ensure that people who experience disability can take the central role in discussion of issues that personally affect them.

Questions

12. What is the best way to ensure that the voices of people experiencing disability have a leading role in decisions that affect them?

13. How else might people experiencing disability have greater control over the services that impact on them?