Content note: family, domestic and sexual violence, system and child abuse
Children and young people with disability experience higher rates of violence compared to those without disability, yet access to supports and services that meet their needs remains limited.
CYDA’s submission to the consultation on Strengthening Our Responses to Family Violence in Tasmania calls on the government to explicitly centre disabled children and young people as victim-survivors in their own right and to increase the recognition, protections and services available to them.
We recommend that the Tasmanian Government:
- Apply an intersectional lens to centre children and young people with disability as victim-survivors
- Directly reference disability in legislation relevant to family violence and dedicate funding towards disability services and inclusive family and domestic violence supports
- Implement a whole-of-system response to combat family and domestic violence, linking services to disability, community, education, and health systems, and requiring those services to be accessible and inclusive
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