Systemic reform – commitments, actions and accountability

Six systemic reforms

1. Co-design with people with disability
2. Aboriginal self-determination
3. Intersectional approaches
4. Accessible communications and universal design
5. Disability confident and inclusive workforces
6. Effective data and outcomes reporting

Building genuine inclusion means changing the way we do things.

It means having people with disability at the table when we design policies, programs and services. It means working with Aboriginal people with disability and listening to what works best for them and their communities. It means recognising the way ableism intersects with other forms of structural discrimination and understanding what that means for the way we design and deliver services. It means building accessibility into everything we do. It means skilling up our workforces to understand the social and human rights models of disability and what that means for how they do their jobs. And it means getting better at measuring progress and sharing what we’ve achieved.

All Victorian government departments acknowledge that changing the way we do things requires greater effort and a genuine commitment to reform. Through the plan, we have committed to implementing six systemic reform directions. Across the Victorian Government, all departments have agreed that over the next four years they will embed the six systemic reforms in their policies, programs and services, as outlined in the commitments below.

These reforms underpin all the priority area actions in the plan, but there are also some specific actions and accountabilities under the systemic reform commitments. Actions that relate to reform directions and have a whole-of-government or multiagency focus, or broad systemic applicability, have been included here. Departments will report on how they are implementing these six reform commitments and actions as part of their state disability plan reporting requirements.