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Everyday steps to prevent everyday harms of people with disability

Project Details

Funding partner

Australian Research Council Linkage Grant (LP210200536)


Timeframe

2022 - 2025


Publications

Journal articles and reports will be published. A series of resources will also be published for people with cognitive disability and their informal supporters, support workers and disability organisations, and policy makers.

Team

DCI researchers


Research partners

  • UNSW Sydney Social Policy Research Centre – Professor Karen Fisher, Dr Heikki Ikaheimo

  • University of Melbourne – Dr Claire Spivakovsky

  • NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission - Dr Jeffrey Chan

  • VACRO - Dr Aaron Hart

  • Purple Orange - Robbi Williams

  • Northcott - Samantha Frain

  • SA Department of Human Services

  • Bedford Phoenix Inc

  • Mable

  • Disability Advocacy Network Australia (DANA)

  • Novita

  • genU

Summary

Our research is about what to do when young people with intellectual disability are not treated well in their everyday support from their workers. 

We call this everyday harm. 

Everyday harm is things that make people feel sad or offended, like being ignored or spoken to in a nasty way. 


Our project is about how people can take everyday steps in their work together that make it easier to stop everyday harm from happening. 


Impact

The project addresses a key national interest, the safety and wellbeing of people with disability. New evidence is needed to address the stark problems of abuse and neglect identified in the Disability Royal Commission. Incorporating new understandings of abuse, safety and wellbeing into national policy and practice collaboration will help organisations efficiently and safely improve the quality of disability support, improving effectiveness and value of key mechanisms such as the NDIS. The research will contribute to achieving Australia’s Disability Strategy 2022-2032, addressing Outcome Area: Safety, Rights and Justice. It will also support conceptual and practical approaches to enhance safety and wellbeing in the related sectors of aged care and children’s services.

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