LivedX 2022 series: Full policy paper – Healthcare settings for LGBTQIA+ Youth with disability
LGBTQIA+ youth with disability discuss healthcare professionals being unaware of how to approach diverse gender identity, sexual orientation and disability.
LivedX 2022 series: Full policy paper – Community spaces for LGBTQIA+ Youth with disability
LGBTIQA+ youth with disability talk about feeling marginalised in both disability and queer spaces.
LivedX 2022 series: Full policy paper – Inclusion and decision making
Young people with disability talk about the ways in which opportunities to make decisions are reduced or taken away from them.
Release of 10-year cornerstone strategy heralds a ‘fair go’ for children and young people with a disability in Australia
Mary Sayers, Children Young People with Disability (CYDA) CEO has warmly welcomed the release of Australia’s Disability Strategy saying that it is the most promising blueprint in Australia’s history for ensuring children and young people with disability get a fair go. The strategy, which builds on the former 10-year National Disability Strategy, was officially unveiled […]
Overwhelming opposition to planned NDIS reforms, say young people with disability and their families
Overwhelming opposition to planned NDIS reforms, say young people with disability and their families A report released today by the national organisation for children and young people with disability finds 80 per cent of young people with disability and families of children with disability believe the introduction of Independent Assessments is a negative change to the NDIS. […]
Recognising and promoting the rights of children and young people with disability – Briefing Paper
Briefing Paper for the 2021 Families Australia and Children and Young People with Disability Australia Forum on recognising the rights of children and young people with disability.
Address poverty for young people with disability and create a youth jobs plan
Nearly half of young people with disability (15-24 years) are being forced to live on inadequate income support payments as their main source of income. Children and Young People with Disability (CYDA), the national representative organisation for children and young people with disability is calling on the Australian government to urgently address the poverty and […]
Education jurisdictions let off the hook by the Disability Royal Commission during COVID-19 after neglect of students with a disability
Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) says the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with a Disability (DRC) has failed to give sufficient weight to the needs of students with a disability during the pandemic.
Disability groups fight to end segregation of people with disability in Australia
CYDA and 41 other disability rights and advocacy organisations have endorsed a position paper asking the Disability Royal Commission to actively work toward the goal of ending the segregation of people with disability in schools, housing and workplaces. People with disability fought long and hard for a Disability Royal Commission, and now we need them to fight for real reform, to fix the discriminatory and exploitative systems that keep us from fully participating in education and employment and living independently.
Victoria pulls the first lever on delivering inclusive education
Victoria pulls the first lever on delivering inclusive education The Victorian Government has today taken a significant step towards achieving inclusive education, becoming only the second state to introduce functional needs-based funding for students with disability. Australia’s national representative organisation Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) welcomes this new approach and looks forward […]
Australia is failing students with disability, evidence to the Royal Commission will show
Evidence to be presented at the Disability Royal Commission hearing on Monday 12 October will highlight the systemic failures and human rights breaches experienced by students with disability across the country. The hearing will focus on the systemic neglect, abuse, and discrimination faced by students with disability across Australia – including the use of restraints […]
National Youth Disability Summit – What young people with disability said – NDIS Position Paper
In this paper, young people talk about what is working and not working in the NDIS, and what needs to change.
