Victoria Legal Aid

Disability action plan

Our vision for disability equality is that we have a fair and just society where everyone is equal. Our disability action plan sets our objectives for the next four years.

Launching our Disability Action Plan

Our Disability Action Plan 2022–2025 has been co-designed with people with disability and sets out our objectives for the next four years. An annual implementation plan with accountability for timelines, activities and measures to track how we are progressing will sit underneath it.

Vision

Victoria Legal Aid has an inclusive workplace culture and provides inclusive services, leadership and advocacy to improve disability equality across the whole organisation and in the community. Our vision for disability equality is that we have a fair and just society where everyone is equal.

Our role

As a legal service provider, we will play an important role in improving outcomes for people with disability in the legal system.

To improve outcomes we will develop stronger relationships with disability organisations, promote equal rights and opportunities for people living with disability and acknowledge our role as a significant influencer in the justice system to improve accessibility.

Key objectives

  1. Establish and support a Victoria Legal Aid disability lived-experience advisory group to better understand client experiences and to inform and co-design service, policy, and practice improvements and/or changes
  2. Improve on and consider different ways people with disability access information and enter into our services
  3. Improve the way we ask for and record information about people with disability who are seeking our help
  4. Improve the way we deliver information and services to people with disability
  5. Align our service range, eligibility guidelines and processes to meet the needs of people with disability
  6. Support the Victoria Legal Aid Disability Employee Network to inform and influence our workplace policies, practices and culture
  7. Improve our understanding of our disability workforce through better data
  8. Build a disability-positive, safe and inclusive workplace culture
  9. Provide better support to staff members with disability and intersectional factors that impact on them and ensure our workplace is accessible
  10. Ensure recruitment processes are accessible and equitable
  11. Improve career pathways and professional development opportunities for staff with disability
  12. Embed a focus on disability, and include disability lived experience perspectives and expertise, in all Victoria Legal Aid work
  13. Proactively engage with, and build stronger relationships with organisations that represent and work with people with disability
  14. Advocate for and promote cultural and attitudinal change in the broader community to benefit people with disability

More information

Disclaimer: The material in this print-out relates to the law as it applies in the state of Victoria. It is intended as a general guide only. Readers should not act on the basis of any material in this print-out without getting legal advice about their own particular situations. Victoria Legal Aid disclaims any liability howsoever caused to any person in respect of any action taken in reliance on the contents of the publication.

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Reviewed 20 May 2022

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