NSW Ombudsman Rights Project for People with Disability – Resource Table

On the 29th April, 2016, the NSW Ombudsman Rights Project for People with Disability held its first Expert Forum meeting.

As a result of this meeting, a comprehensive NSW Ombudsman Expert Forum Resources Table was prepared that includes links to 116 resources from around Australia, and internationally, providing information and resources to help address the rights of people with disability.

Please take a few minutes to look through or search this very comprehensive database, as there are many links to a wide range of important resources and information that support your work with people with disability.

December 12, 2017

Three reasons Australians should be concerned that NGOs’ voices are not being heard. A healthy democracy is built on the premise that public debate should allow for many and diverse voices to be heard as part of the contest for ideas that informs policymaking. If Australians want this to be the case, the current state of play offers three reasons for concern.

December 11, 2017

The Family Matters Report 2017 shows the rate at which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are removed from their families continues to be an escalating national crisis. Without immediate action from all levels of government further generations of children will be lost to their families, cultures and communities. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are 9.8 times more likely to be living in out-of-home care than non-Indigenous children.

December 7, 2017

Mission Australia have just released results from their 16th Youth Survey, in which 24,055 young people aged 15 to 19 took part. Young people identified mental health, alcohol and drugs and equity and discrimination as the most important issues in Australia today, with around one third of young people identifying mental health (33.7%) or alcohol and drugs (32.0%) as important issues in Australia today and almost three in ten respondents identifying equity and discrimination (27.3%) as a major issue.

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NSW Ombudsman Rights Project for People with Disability – Resource Table