State Disability Inclusion Policy

This article discusses the State Disability Inclusion Policy in Australia, focusing on the legislation, barriers, and strategies for inclusion. It explores the National Disability Strategy 2010-2020 and the role of various acts in ensuring equality and non-discrimination. The article also highlights the importance of education and collaboration among healthcare professionals in providing proper care and support to disabled individuals. Additionally, it emphasizes the need for accessible resources and the elimination of discrimination to promote the participation of disabled individuals in society.

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A community is comprised of different ethnic background people along with age, race,
gender and different geographic origin as well. However, all these differences commonly
comprised of another aspect that is disability and the disability can be of mental or physical or
both. On this context it can be stated that the needs of different policies for the health care or
other type of facilities for these disabled people. A study states that 22% of South Australian
women, 24% of South Australian male and 10% of South Australian children under 15 years old
found to be disabled which includes 3% disabled people from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people (Khemka, Roberts and Higgins 2017). Thus it can be seen on the basis of the
data that a good amount of people face problems of disability whether that is physical or mental
disability they need special providences. In order to address this context the Australian
Government devised National Disability Strategy 2010-2020 which adopted the policies of
United Nation on the Rights of the Person with Disability. This strategy comprised of the
following aspects:
Respect dignity and individual in order to provide freedom to make their own choices
Eliminating discrimination
Effective participation and inclusion in society of everyone
Respect for difference and accepting every persons with disability
Equal opportunity for everyone
Access to resources equally
Gender equity

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Respect for children with disability and respect the right of children with disability to provide
them with all facilities.
On the basis of these factors it can be said that the national Disability Strategy for the community
care depends on the equality and non-discriminating factors along with providing facilities for
the disabled people (Violence and Wales 2017). However, the strategy needs to be included with
or follow the legislative acts that are the The Disability Discrimination Act 1992, The National
Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013, The Disability Services Act 1986 and other acts as well.
These legislations are needed to be incorporated in the process of providing the disabled persons
with utmost facility and also monitoring the community health services in order to determine the
flaws or any kind of malpractice that affects or discriminates the disables from other people. The
Disability Inclusion Act 2018 which was recently passed was included in the strategy by the state
Governments (McPherson et al. 2017). Another aspect of this state disability inclusion is to
provide the eligible candidates with all facilities however, for this the Governments needs
collaborative actions and this would be termed as the discrimination among the disable people as
well thus in order to provide equity among them The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 needed
to be included as well. Thus it can be stated that the policy of the State Disability Inclusion
needed to be comprised of equality and eliminating any kind of discrimination, providing the
disable people with different facilities in terms of education, employment, subsidy and free
health care with primary prioritization (Bigby, Tilbury and Hughes 2018). All these aspects
would be monitored with the help of the above mentioned legislations. The argument focuses on
the flaws and the improvement of the policy. In order to determine the flaws of the policy it
needed to be understand the barriers of the policy as the environmental barriers which can be
effectively create a distance between the society and the disabled person, attitudinal barrier

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which can effectively be pose a threat by means of the isolation of the disabled person and limit
the interaction of these people with others, educational barrier that impacts on the understanding
of disabled people. Other than all these the lack participation, inadequate statistics about the
incidence rate of the problem also pose a problem in the implementation of the State inclusion
policy. However, all these barriers can be eliminated if the legislative acts are included in this
policy properly. Other than the legislative acts the education and the approach of the community
health care professionals would help in the motivation of these people and help them
approaching to the professional with their needs (Goggin, Hollier and Hawkins 2017). The health
care professionals also need the education and the understanding of the non discrimination aspect
in a proper way to implement the State inclusion policy. On the other hand the health care
professionals also need to focus on the physical health condition of the people with disabilities of
any community (Molton and Yorkston 2017). Thus it can be said that the Government also need
to educate the health care professionals in order to provide proper carte to the disabled people.
Other than possible education for the professionals and also the education of the community
people for providing better and positive environment to the disabled people the Government also
needs to focus on the development of the accessible resources for the disabled people as well.
The barriers such as language barrier, visibility disability, hearing disability are the factors that
needed to be supported by the education in a special way for these people. However, the
discrimination between the normal people and the people with disability needed to be eliminated
in order to succeed in implementation of this State disability inclusion policy. The sole focus of
this policy would be the incorporation of disabled people in the society and removing the barriers
that prevents these people to participate in the main line education or any other official activities.
National Disability Strategy 2010-2020 includes the following six principles as well:

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Inclusive and accessible communities,
Rights protection, justice and legislation,
Economic security,
Personal and community support,
Learning and skills and
Health and wellbeing (Dss.gov.au, 2019)
All these are to facilitate the needs of the disabled people and to monitor or giving them the
power to avoid any kind of discrimination in any context. The Government also stated that this
policy or strategy is to make sure the increase the rate of participation of the disable people in the
social and economic aspects of the society; they also stated that the primary implication of this
policy is to effectively increase the knowledge and purpose of The National Disability Insurance
Scheme Act 2013 (Dss.gov.au, 2019). However, the implementation of this policy needed to be
monitored with the help of The Disability Discrimination Act 1992. The statistical data about the
incidence rate of disability in the country needed to be assessed first in order to implement the
policy and on the basis of the incidence rate of disability the resource management, funding and
the education providence would be planned or mapped in order to provide proper amount of care
and resource. The primary focus would be on the participation rate increase of the disabled
people and also providing them proper care. In order to develop or provide all these factors for
the people with disability the State Government of South Australia develop the plan of reviewing
the condition of the community people in terms of their action and the discrimination elimination
for the people (Fässberg et al. 2016). All these factors needed to be evaluated on the basis of the
statistical analysis and also the observation for example the in policy The Disability Inclusion
Act 2018 incorporated and thus the timeline of the monitoring would be from the inclusion of the
act that is the July 2018 to October 2021 (Townsend et al. 2018). In this time frame the
implementation of the act, development of inclusion plan, disability access and the results of the

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plan implementation would be analysed for the better knowledge of the flaws and the changes
the plan need. This monitoring would also be needed to know the positive aspect of the plan and
the improvement needed for the plan as well. However, the inclusion plan would be improved
with the incorporation of the prioritized care model which would help in the person centered care
providence for the people with disability and the amount of participation of these people in the
society affaires. The discrimination on the other hand needed to be eliminated as well in order to
provide people with disability with a positive life style. State disability inclusion policy for the
people with disability would be focused on the disabled however, for the wellness of the society
and the empowerment along with the elimination of the discrimination the focus of the policy
needed to be focused on the counseling of the normal people about the equality education
(Jacobson et al. 2019). The attitude towards the people with disability needed to be polite and
help them with their needs as they would be unable to do several daily works and they needed to
be treated as equal thus they can participate in the social activities. All these factors needed to be
incorporated in the policy and monitored as well in order to include the people with disability
into the community health activity or other social activities. They also needed to be provided
with opportunity of employment on the basis of their knowledge and expertise (Magasi et al.
2019). All these factors needed to be assessed within the policy of state disability inclusion and
for that reason the health care professionals needed to build up relation with the people with
disability and help them in participate in the education program and engage in the social
activities.

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