REFORM AND POLICY DIRECTIONS
14. All governments commit to ongoing policy and reform directions in the provision of disability advocacy to achieve the objectives and outcomes of this Framework.
15. All governments agree to improve the administration of advocacy support, with a focus on improving service delivery and access to advocacy for people with disability. Key policy directions to achieve this are:
(a) Supporting and implementing the National Disability Agreement, National Disability Strategy and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;
(b) Governments will ensure that disability advocacy is free from conflict of interest and independent from the broader service system that provides support to people with disability;
(c) Reform to Disability Advocacy will be affected by the full range of reform and priority directions in the National Disability Agreement. In particular, the following have a close relationship to this Framework:
(i) Creating a service system which enhances the social and economic participation for people with disability, including improving people’s skills and capabilities to participate and ensuring person centred, timely and simplified access to supports;
(ii) Developing a National Disability Quality Framework with a National Quality Assurance system for disability services;
(iii) Improving the data collection for disability advocacy within the broader considerations and plans for the National Minimum Data Set;
(iv) Working towards outcome based reporting and evaluation of the disability advocacy sector to enhance transparency and accountability;
(v) Increasing workforce capacity;
(d) Ensuring that the funding of disability advocacy is transparent, equitable and accountable;
(e) The use of evidence based data for administration and planning of disability advocacy, which is considerate of all factors impacting on the needs of people with disability; and
(f) Improving coordination and communication between the disability advocacy, mainstream sector and governments to develop the overall capacity of the sector, including promoting linkages between individual and systemic advocacy.
16. All governments agree to work together to review the key policy directions from time to time in light of emerging priorities at the national and local level.