Page 446 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 15 February 2005
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The Access to Government Audit Kit, produced collaboratively with the Disability ACT Council, enables Government departments to identify and address any barriers that are preventing people with a disability from accessing services.
In September this year the ACT Public Service Employment Framework was also released to assist people with a disability to access secure and sustainable employment opportunities within the ACT.
Mr Speaker these are just some of the many recent initiatives undertaken by the Government to better support people with disabilities.
The Report I table today contains a comprehensive record of the initiatives taken in the two years since September 2002, when the Government responded to the Recommendations of the Board of Inquiry.
The Government remains committed to implementing the remaining recommendations and advancing the reform process through the Future Directions framework, to which I have referred.
We have come a long way, but there is still much to be done to meet the vision of people with disabilities that they ‘to achieve what they want to achieve, live how they choose to live, and to be valued as full and equal members of the ACT community.’
Mr Speaker I commend to members the Government Response to the Recommendations of the Board of Inquiry into Disability Services Fourth Progress Report.
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