Additional supports and safeguards are necessary for people who may not be able to manage their supports and articulate their advocacy requirements. QDN acknowledges the positive steps that the Commonwealth has taken in reviewing the current National Disability Advocacy Framework. As the transition to the NDIS fundamentally alters the disability environment it is important to ensure advocacy is appropriately funded and recognised as a vital pathway for individuals and communities. Advocacy is vital to ensuring fundamental needs and rights are represented and met within services and the broader community to support full social and economic participation by people with disability as well as real choice and control in regard to their services and supports. In summary, QDN believes the NDAF is still relevant in the context of the NDIS and the benefits for people with disability in preserving the current advocacy framework include: It provides a clear framework for customers in terms of how advocacy works as a safeguard that contributes to their social and economic participation It provides an ethical framework to guide workers and advocacy organisations It provides a nationally consistent approach that complements quality and safeguards and services and support provided under the Information, Linkages and Capacity Building component (Tier 2 ) of the NDIS. Queenslanders with Disability Network – 23 July 2015.
Additional supports and safeguards are necessary for people who may not be able to manage their supports and articulate their advocacy requirements. QDN acknowledges the positive steps that the Commonwealth has taken in reviewing the current National Disability Advocacy Framework. As the transition to the NDIS fundamentally alters the disability environment it is important to ensure advocacy is appropriately funded and recognised as a vital pathway for individuals and communities. Advocacy is vital to ensuring fundamental needs and rights are represented and met within services and the broader community to support full social and economic participation by people with disability as well as real choice and control in regard to their services and supports. In summary, QDN believes the NDAF is still relevant in the context of the NDIS and the benefits for people with disability in preserving the current advocacy framework include: It provides a clear framework for customers in terms of how advocacy works as a safeguard that contributes to their social and economic participation It provides an ethical framework to guide workers and advocacy organisations It provides a nationally consistent approach that complements quality and safeguards and services and support provided under the Information, Linkages and Capacity Building component (Tier 2 ) of the NDIS. Queenslanders with Disability Network – 23 July 2015.
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