Disability action plan

Our Disability Action Plan 2022–2025 has been co-designed with people with disability. It sets out our objectives for the next four years. Download the plan:

For each year of the plan, an implementation plan will be developed. It will outline our timelines, activities and measures to track how we are progressing.

Our vision

We have an inclusive workplace culture. We provide 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.

We will:

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

Key objectives for our plan

Our clients

We will:

Establish and support a Victoria Legal Aid disability lived-experience advisory group. This will help us to:
- better understand client experiences
- inform and co-design service, policy, and practice improvements and/or changes.
Improve on and consider different ways people with disability access information and enter into our services.
Improve the way we ask for and record information about people with disability who are seeking our help.
Improve how we deliver information and services to people with disability.
Ensure our services, eligibility guidelines and processes. meet the needs of people with disability.

Our staff

We will:

Support our Disability Employee Network to contribute to our workplace policies, practices and culture.
Improve our understanding of our disability workforce through better data.
Build a disability-positive, safe and inclusive workplace culture.
Provide better support to staff members with disability. This includes addressing the various social factors that impact on them and ensuring our workplace is accessible.
Ensure recruitment processes are accessible and equitable.
Improve career pathways and professional development opportunities for staff with disability VLA and our community.

VLA and our community

Build in a focus on disability issues in all our work. Include disability lived experience perspectives and expertise.
Engage early and build stronger relationships with organisations that represent and work with people with disability.
Advocate and promote cultural and behavioural change in the broader community to benefit people with disability.