Disability Ageing and Carers

Ben Martin Hobbs explores why the in-home care system is failing the older people it’s meant to empower.

"My chronic pain is a whole disability on its own too. It deserves the same respect and weight."

Submission to the Senate inquiry into the adequacy of Newstart and related payments

How to be an awesome disability advocate online. This event featuring writer and appearence activist Carly Findlay was organised by

The NDIA must move from its ‘hands off’ approach to market oversight in favour of active market stewardship.

'Thin markets' is where there is a lack of appropriate services to meet the needs of participants.

The sad reality is access to public transport in Victoria is haphazard.

VCOSS Response to the Australian Building Codes Board Accessible Housing Options Paper

Under-investment by successive Victorian governments has seen many people fall by the wayside.

A co-design process is needed to set NDIS objectives and indicators, and to address a range of gaps that exist.

People with disability will help shape Victoria's care workforce of the future.

VCOSS & FSSI MEDIA RELEASE Victoria has a window of opportunity to put itself ahead of the game in building

A Disability Action Plan is an important step in improving health and wellbeing outcomes for Victorians with disability.

People with disability have the right to live independently and to be included in the community.

VCOSS submission to NDIS Joint Standing Committee inquiry into market readiness for provision of services under the NDIS The NDIS

The review of the Vulnerable People in Emergencies policy is an important step in improving emergency management policies to better

Older Australians deserve a residential aged care system where they are treated with dignity and respect, where their care needs

VCOSS has welcomed a new plan to improve work, study and business opportunities for Victorians with a disability.

People with disability have the right to be safe and receive high quality services. VCOSS believes that a robust registration

VCOSS welcome the development of an inclusive education policy to support the learning and development of students with disability. Overall

VCOSS strongly supports increasing consumer choice and empowering older people to have greater control over the services they access. But

The NDIS brings a major shift in service provision for people with disability. VCOSS strongly supports the goals of NDIS:

VCOSS welcomes this opportunity to comment on the Enhancing Victorian’s Economic Performance and Productivity Discussion Paper (the Discussion Paper) prepared

A robust system for quality and safeguarding will helps prevent people with disability experiencing harm and promotes high quality service

VCOSS was overwhelmingly happy with the Productivity Commission’s Position Paper on NDIS Costs, particularly the Paper’s recommendations to provide pre-planning

The NDIS Code of Conduct sets out the obligations providers and workers are expected to comply with when delivering NDIS

For many people with disability, the current review of NDIS costs reinforces a perceived shift away from viewing the scheme

Price limits and pricing policies directly affect service quality and diversity available to NDIS participants. Having an accurate and flexible

Many people living with mental illness will be ineligible for NDIS individual funding packages. VCOSS believes state and federal governments

Victoria’s peak social advocacy body has warned not all Victorians are benefiting from the state’s social and economic growth, and