Abbreviations
Term/ abbreviation | What it means in the Plan |
|---|---|
| AAP | Accessibility Action Plan. |
| CPRD | United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. |
| DAP | Disability Action Plan. |
| DLO | Disability Liaison Officer. |
| DPRG | Disability Portfolio Reference Group. |
| GEDI | Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan. |
| Inclusive Victoria | Inclusive Victoria state disability plan 2022–2026. |
| NDIS | National Disability Insurance Scheme. |
| Disability Royal Commission | The Royal Commission into the Abuse, Violence, Neglect and Exploitation of people with Disability. |
| VPeR | Victoria Police e-Referrals. |
Key terms
Term/ abbreviation | What it means in the Plan |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal self-determination | The ability for Aboriginal people to freely determine their political status and pursue their economic, social and cultural development. |
| Accessibility | The extent to which people with disability can access something like an office, worksite or public area. |
| Co-design | The process of involving people with disability in designing, delivering and evaluating a policy, program, product or service. |
| Discrimination | The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, sex, or disability. |
| Identity-first language | Identity-first language puts a person’s disability identity before the person. For example, ‘disabled person’. |
| Intersectionality | A way of describing overlapping forms of discrimination or disadvantage based on attributes such as age, disability, sexuality, ethnicity, Aboriginality, and religion. |
| Person-first language | Person-first language puts the person before their disability, for example, person with disability. |
| Systemic reform | These are areas of focus with Inclusive Victoria that help the Victorian Government work differently to deliver inclusion and access and uphold rights. |
| The Disability Act 2006 | Legislation that provides a whole-of-Victorian-government and community response to the rights and needs of people with disability. |
| Universal design | Making spaces, policies and programs that are inclusive and accessible so they can be used independently by everyone. |
| Objectives | What we hope will happen if the actions in this plan do what they are meant to do. |
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