FAQ

We are a group of disability advocacy, information and peak representative organisations that empower people with a disability to have a voice. Our member organisations are: Physical Disability Council of NSW; Family Advocacy; IDEAS; People with Disability Australia; NSW Council for Intellectual Disability; Intellectual Disability Rights Service; Disability

Under something called the ‘Information Linkages and Capacity building’ (ILC) arm of the NDIS, there will be some information services and focus on capacity building. However, the government is very explicit that the NDIS will not fund individual advocacy or systemic advocacy: “Some activities that advocacy organisations

It varies. Family Advocacy, for example, campaigns on behalf of people in NSW with all kinds of disability – including intellectual/cognitive, developmental, neurodivergent (autism, sensory processing disorders, other), physical, and sensory (hearing and sight impairment). Other types of disability amongst families that Family Advocacy represents include Down

Some of the classic battles families of people with disability face include enrolment in the regular class at school, professional and useful treatment from medical professionals and not having their son or daughter lumped into services with people they may have nothing in common with than a

Societal expectations and attitudes around people with disability when it comes to education, work, housing and participation in community aren’t great. Start with schooling: according to the NSW Auditor General, one in four students still experience exclusion and/or rejection from mainstream education (2016). Children and Young People

In NSW, common physical disabilities can include an acquired brain injury, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury and stroke.

Government reports and census data indicates that 18.2% of the NSW population has a disability – almost one in five people (1.37 million of the 7.413 million NSW residents). This is reflective of the national statistic of 18.5% of Australians reporting a disability. NSW is placed in

It’s simple: we want the NSW government to stand by us. We want the resources to be able to keep serving people with a disability in NSW, so that all of us can participate fully in our communities. That means we need to be fully funded. When

Without advocacy, families won’t have the support and knowledge of generations of families who have advocated for their loved one with disability. They won’t have support when their child, who has autism, is rejected from eight different schools. They won’t have peer support and a vision of

Working together with individuals and their families we’ve made tremendous progress. The best changes are those that today we take for granted: like the fact that children with disability are entitled to attend regular schools. More recently, advocates realised many people needing to see their doctor weren’t