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DISABILITY INCLUSION ACTION PLANS Progress Reports NSW Local Councils 2019-2020 1 [ Page left intentionally blank ] 2 Contents AlburyCity Council 7 Armidale Regional Council 7 Ballina Shire Council 8 Balranald Shire Council 9 Bathurst Regional Council 9 Bayside Council 10 Bega Valley Shire Council 11 Bellingen Shire Council 15 Berrigan Shire Council 17 Blacktown City Council 18 Bland Shire Council 21 Blayney Shire Council 23 Blue Mountains City Council 24 Bogan Shire Council 27 Bourke Shire Council 27 Brewarrina Shire Council 28 Broken Hill Council 29 Burwood Council 31 Byron Shire Council 31 Cabonne Council 32 Camden Council 32 Campbelltown City Council 33 Canterbury Bankstown Council 37 Carrathool Shire Council 38 Central Coast Council 39 Central Darling Shire Council 41 Cessnock City Council 41 City of Canada Bay 43 City of Newcastle Council 44 City of Parramatta Council 47 City of Ryde Council 48 City of Sydney Council 51 Clarence Valley Council 67 Cobar Shire Council 68 Council progress updates have been Coffs Harbour City Council 69 extracted from Council Annual Re- ports, either in the body of the Annual Coolamon Shire Council 71 Report or from the attached DIAP, Coonamble Shire Council 72 or from progress updates provided Cootamundra Gundagai Regional Council 71 directly via the Communities and Cowra Shire Council 73 Justice Disability Inclusion Planning Cumberland City Council 73 mailboxes. Dubbo Regional Council 78 Dungog Shire Council 82 3 Edward River Council 83 Narrabri Shire Council 147 Eurobodalla Shire Council 83 Narrandera Shire Council 147 Fairfield City Council 85 Narromine Shire Council 149 Federation Council 86 Northern Beaches Council 151 Forbes Shire Council 87 North Sydney Council 150 Georges River Council 88 Oberon Council 152 Gilgandra Shire Council 90 Orange City Council 153 Glen Innes Severn Council 91 Parkes Shire Council 154 Goulburn Mulwaree Council 92 Penrith City Council 154 Greater Hume Council 93 Port Macquarie-Hastings Council 156 Griffith City Council 94 Port Stephens Council 159 Gunnedah Shire Council 95 Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council 160 Gwydir Shire Council 99 Randwick City Council 161 Hawkesbury City Council 100 Richmond Valley Council 162 Hay Shire Council 100 Shellharbour City Council 163 Hilltops Council 102 Shoalhaven City Council 164 Hornsby Shire Council 103 Singleton Council 167 Hunter’s Hill Council 104 Snowy Monaro Regional Council 169 Inner West Council 105 Snowy Valleys Council 170 Inverell Shire Council 108 Strathfield Municipal Council 171 Junee Shire Council 111 Sutherland Shire Council 172 Kempsey Shire Council 112 Tamworth Regional Council 174 Kiama Council 113 Temora Shire Council 174 Kuring-Gai Council 114 Tenterfield Shire Council 176 Kyogle Council 115 The Hills Shire Council 178 Lachlan Shire Council 117 Tweed Shire Council 179 Lake Macquarie City Council 118 Upper Hunter Shire Council 182 Lane Cove Municipal Council 119 Uralla Shire Council 186 Leeton Shire Council 120 Wagga Wagga City Council 188 Lismore City Council 122 Walcha Council 189 Lithgow City Council 122 Walgett Shire Council 190 Liverpool City Council 124 Warren Shire Council 191 Liverpool Plains Shire Council 127 Warrumbungle Shire Council 192 Lockhart Shire Council 128 Waverly Council 194 Maitland City Council 130 Weddin Shire Council 198 Mid Coast Council 134 Wentworth Shire Council; 199 Mid Western Regional Council 138 Willoughby City Council 199 Moree Plains Shire Council 140 Wingcarbee Shire Council 203 Mosman Municipal Council 140 Wollondilly Shire Council 204 Murray River Council 143 Wollongong City Council 206 Murrumbidgee Council 143 Woollahra Municipal Council 208 Muswellbrook Shire Council 144 Yass Valley Council 213 Nambucca Valley Council 145 4 5 The NSW Government’s commitment to inclusion is reflected in the Disability Inclusion Act 2014, NSW Disability Inclusion Plan and Disability Inclusion Action Plans. The NSW Disability Inclusion Act 2014 The NSW Disability Inclusion Act 2014 replaced the Disability Services Act 1993. The change marks an important cognitive shift, from governments simply providing services toward taking action to include people with disabilities in our communities. The Disability Inclusion Act takes a human rights-based approach to disability inclusion based on the principals of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It aims to promote the social and economic inclusion of people with disability, provide choice and control, and implement safeguards. It also provides a set of processes for the stewardship of disability services as the NDIS is implemented in NSW. The NSW Disability Inclusion Plan The NSW Disability Inclusion Plan (“NSW DIP”) is the NSW Government’s guiding document for building inclusion for people with disability in NSW. The NSW DIP provides a set of goals under four priorities, which were developed in consultation with relevant communities: Priority 1: Developing positive community attitudes and behaviours. Priority 2: Creating liveable communities. Priority 3: Supporting access to meaningful employment. Priority 4: Improving access to mainstream services through better systems and processes. Local Disability Inclusion Action Plans (DIAPs) The NSW DIP is operationalised through the development of Disability Inclusion Action Plans (DIAPs). Disability Inclusion Action Plans provide a public statement of the commitment to accessibility and inclusion among public authorities and put the principles of the NSW Disability Inclusion Act into practice. These plans build disability inclusion into day-to-day operations across state and local government. Local government Disability Inclusion Action Plans (DIAPs) 2019/2020 progress This is an extract of NSW local councils 2019/2020 achievements taken from their DIAPs 2019/2020 progress or annual reports. To view council’s full reports please visit their website. [email protected] 6 AlburyCity Council Creating liveable communities AlburyCity has completed the following: • Council, through our facilities management team, are constantly looking at our assets • The Access Committee continued to meet and ensuring works of rectification are throughout the year to advocate for better undertaken where issues of accessibility access throughout the local government are raised. area, in addition to providing the opportunity to provide input into council decisions • Two additional Disabled parking spaces relating to pedestrian (tactile ground have been identified for the front of our surface indicators) movement for people Home Support Services office (Nicolli with vision impairment. House) in Guyra to promote access for clients. Additional capital works on Guyra • The annual International Day of People with main street have included curb side access Disability event was held in conjunction with and disabled car spaces. Further, planned the City of Wodonga and the AlburyCity upgrades to some of the community halls Mayor attended the event. in our villages such as Wollomombi have • The Community Development Officer been earmarked to include wheel chair attended a course on Universal Design access ramps. Principles and deaf awareness training and • The Community Wellbeing Advisory provided input into planning decisions and committee provides a strong conduit for designs for council relating to access. information to and from Council, and • Attendance at the Capability Network community on issues of access. meetings continued, with the Community Supporting access to meaningful Development officer also remaining as a Steering Committee member for the employment committee. • Additional employment opportunities were not provided in this period due to COVID. Armidale Regional Council • The People and Culture department has, Developing positive community recently audited internal processes and attitudes and behaviours procedures to assess Council’s capacity to support a diverse workforce. Outcomes • Armidale Regional Council has endorsed from this audit are eagerly awaited. through the Community Wellbeing Advisory • Committee to reestablish an Access Improving access to mainstream services Advisory Working Party to focus on and through better systems and processes lead the community in areas of access and • Council has commissioned an accessibility inclusion. audit of its website and subsequently • Staff continue to be trained in inclusivity revised its online content, presence, and code of conduct as part of the on- and developed a uniform means of boarding of new staff. creating online content to ensure that all materials are accessible. Executing • Council is undergoing a revision of the recommendations from the accessibility committees and structures within Council. audit is in progress and is currently 60% The report undertaken by consultants has complete. recommended the reestablishment of an Access Committee in its own right. How have you determined that you’re meeting the needs of people with • ARC is an advocate for inclusion on people disability? with disabilities. Ensuring events that are planned by staff; actively engage with • Council has a policy of, responding to the community to provide awareness of enquiries and complaints within a 10 day appropriate access to events. 7 period. Any feedback from community • Membership of Ballina Shire Dementia around issues of access, are dealt with Friendly Community Alliance. within those parameters. Creating liveable communities • Members of the Community Wellbeing • Advisory Committee are charged with the Upgraded
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