Good access is Good business: Why should you develop a Disability Action and Inclusion Plan (DAIP)?

In this webinar you will learn how to develop a DAIP using practical tools. Frances Riggs will be sharing her expertise followed by interactive activities and Q&A session so that you can put learning into practice.

If the Disability Inclusion Bill is passed, there will become a legislative requirement for all public sector entities to make a disability inclusion plan (5-year entity-specific plans). So this is only a government mandatory requirement if the Bill passes.

The Disability Inclusion Bill would also require a range of disability inclusion strategies (10-year strategies inclusive of government and non-government stakeholders) to be developed for ‘priority inclusion areas’, which would be based on the outcome areas of Australia’s Disability Strategy. The strategies would be required to include information for non-government entities about ways to support disability inclusion in the strategy, including how to make a disability inclusion plan. So this is a mandatory requirement for both government and non-government stakeholders if the Bill passes.

Module 3, delivered by GetAboutAble will include:

• Rates of employment of people with disability.
• Why employ people with disability?
• Benefits of employing people with disability.
• Unconscious bias.
• How to attract and recruit potential employees with a disability?
• Creating an accessible and inclusive workplace for people with disability.
• An opportunity to pose questions on notice to people with lived experience of disability to build your capacity as employers to recruit and provide a more accessible and welcoming workplace for people with disability

If you missed out on module 1 and module 2, kindly contact Cheryl Pollard on cheryl.pollard@canberrabusiness.com

About the Speaker
Frances Riggs has worked in the disability sector for 20 years and is passionate about shaping diverse and inclusive communities that enable participation by people with disability in all their diversity. Frances has extensive experience and knowledge of project management and community development across a number of areas including the disability sector, overseas aid and development with Oxfam Australia, as a Volunteer Abroad, and domestically in the community sector.