ADA regularly engages with both consumers and providers of aged care, disability and guardianship services. This ongoing engagement helps inform our understanding of the service and system issues impacting on consumers.
As a consumer advocacy organisation, we aim to raise awareness of these issues and ensure the consumer experience is considered in all key policy decisions. The development of policy submissions is just one of the methods we use to promote the consumer voice at a systemic level.
ADA Australia prepares policy submissions on a range of important topics. Below are some of the policy submissions recently prepared by the ADA Australia team.
2017
- ADAA submission to the Department of Health’s Review of National Ageing and Aged Care Strategy for People from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Backgrounds
- ADAA & ATSIDNQ joint submission to Department of Social Services discussion paper, Improving the delivery of advocacy for ATSI people with disability
- ADAA & ATSIDNQ joint submission to Department of Social Services discussion paper, National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Code of Conduct
- ADAA submission to Queensland Parliament’s Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee, regarding the Guardianship and Administration and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017
- ADAA submission to the Australian Law Council’s Justice Project, Older Persons Discussion Paper
- ADAA submission to the Australian Law Council’s Justice Project, People with Disability, Discussion Paper
- ADAA submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Elder Abuse Inquiry, Discussion Paper 83
- ADAA submission to the Department of Health’s Future Reform – An Integrated Care at Home Program, Discussion Paper
- ADAA submission to the Department of Health’s Consultation Paper to inform the development of the Aged Care Diversity Framework
