Submission to Disability Safeguards Consultation Team to provide comment on Disability Safeguards Consultation
10 December 2025
PWDA welcomed the opportunity to provide comment on the Disability Safeguards Consultation.
PWDA will engage with our membership and community to inform further stages of the Consultation. In the meantime, this submission provides information about key safeguarding concerns that we have heard from our community in other contexts.
Recommendations
- Recommendation 1: The Disability Support Quality and Safeguarding Framework (the Framework) and Disability Support Ecosystem Safeguarding Strategy (the Strategy) must embed a human rights approach to safeguarding and include express reference to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and Australia's other core human rights treaties.
- Recommendation 2: The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing (DHDA) must ensure that all stages of the Consultation and final decisions about the content of the Framework and Strategy are co-designed with people with disability and all interested disability representative organisations.
- Recommendation 3: The Framework and Strategy address safeguards for people with disability who have experienced modern slavery, particularly those on temporary visas.
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