Election 2020 - Party Policies - Health - Disability
25th Jul 20, 5:55am
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Disability
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- Continue to support and fund awareness projects to raise public awareness of disability issues and support community based action to promote respect and equity for children and adults living with impairments.
- Advocate that 3% of the Disability Services budget is set aside to directly fund leadership training for people living with impairments and independent advocacy organisations
- Introduce needs based funding for children with impairments and to double the percentage receiving individual funding
- Establish a Disability Issues Commission to provide the leadership needed to ensure that disability services become more responsive, flexible and empowering.
- Ensure that any antenatal screening programme is not biased towards termination of pregnancies when an impairment is diagnosed.
- Bring all health and disablity-related income support into a single system based on ACC, with guaranteed payments of at least 80% of the fulltime minimum wage, regardless of what caused a work-impairing condition, or whether someone was employed at the time a work-impairing condition emerged.
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- Provided the biggest-ever funding boost for the disability sector so people with disabilities are empowered to live fulfilling lives.
- Read more here.
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