Disability Lens on the First Action Plan 2023-2027

The Disability Lens builds on the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children and its First Action Plan. It aims to ensure we recognise and respond to the experiences of women and children with disability.

The Disability Lens: 

• outlines how the 10 actions of the First Action Plan apply to women and children with disability
• highlights progress and uses current examples to show what effective responses look like 
• ensures responses remove barriers and unfair treatment experienced by people with disability
• addresses the specific ways people with disability experience violence. 

The Disability Lens responds to Recommendation 8.23 of the 2023 Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.(Opens in a new tab/window) 

We worked with Women with Disabilities Australia and the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. The Disability Lens was co-designed with the community to ensure it reflects lived experience. 

All governments will apply a disability lens to the implementation of the National Plan. This started with the First Action Plan.

Insights from the Disability Lens will inform the development of the Second Action Plan. It will also help us to build on actions for disability inclusion in family, domestic and sexual violence systems and services.

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