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Central Coast Council
Disability Inclusion Action Plan2017- 2021
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Hard words
This booklet has some hard words.
The first time we write a hard word
● the word is in blue
● we will write what the hard word means.
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Central Coast Council’s plan
We have a Disability Inclusion Action Plan.
We call it a plan.
The plan goes from 2017 to 2021.
The plan is to give more opportunities to
people with a disability.
Opportunities are when you get the chance to
do something.
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The community gave us feedback to help
make the plan.
Feedback is when you tell us what you think.
You told us we do some things well.
For example
● we have things to make the beach and
playground easy to use
● we have someone who helps make things
easier for people with a disability
● people with a disability work for us.
You told us there are things we can do better.
For example
● help more people learn about disability
● make events and places easier to get to
● give information in different ways.
put these 3 in a circle or grid
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There are 4 areas in the plan.
● Attitude and behaviour.
Make the community better to people with
a disability.
● Liveable communities.
Make it easier to join in activities
and events.
● Employment.
Make more opportunities to get work.
● Systems and processes.
Make it easier to get information and go
to places.
There is work to do in each area.
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Attitude and behaviour
We want to make the community better to
people with a disability.
We will train staff in disability awareness.
We will help people understand
● there are many different disabilities
● what life is like for someone with a disability.
We will train people in a way that helps them
do their job better.
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We will talk more about disability in our
booklets and videos.
We will help people know that disability is
● common
● part of life in our community.
We will support events and projects.
We will support things like
● International Day of People with a Disability
● Council’s Disability Confidence Week
● staff disability awareness training.
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Liveable communities
We want to make it easier to join in activities
and events.
We will make it easier to access our
buildings and services.
We will have better access to
● footpaths
● easy to use toilets
● parks and playgrounds
● community centres
● libraries
● pools
● events
● signs.
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We will make a standard design to make
places easier to access.
This means places must have certain things.
We will train staff to make places easier
to access.
We will work with community groups
We will work with
● local businesses
● tourism groups
● community groups.
This will help make places be more inclusive.
Inclusive means everyone can be involved.
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Employment
We want to help improve opportunities to
get work.
We will make employment policy that has
information for people with a disability.
Policy is a plan that says what we will do.
The policy will be for people who
● work for us
● want to work for us.
The policy will help give more jobs to people
with a disability.
We will train our staff on what the policy says.
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We will have programs for people with
a disability
We will make programs for people with a
disability who want to
● volunteer
● do work experience.
This means you work for free to learn
new skills.
These programs will help people get a job
● at Council
● in another business.
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Systems and processes
We want to help people with a disability
● get information
● go to places.
We will make sure people with a disability
can communicate with us.
We will make our website easy to access for
people with a disability.
We will make our information easy to
understand for people with a disability.
We will
● make documents and forms in Easy English
● train staff how to make documents better for
people with a disability.
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We will give more information about our
services to people with a disability.
We will tell people with a disability about our
● beach wheelchairs
● buildings
● activities
● parks and playgrounds
● new information
● Disability Inclusion Officer.
The Disability Inclusion Officer works to
make the community better for people with
a disability.
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How we will make it work
We want our plan to work well.
We will
● implement the plan.
This is when we start to do the work.
● review the work.
This is when we check the work and change
what we need to.
● evaluate the plan.
This is when we check if the plan works.
We will make a report about
● how the plan works
● what we did well
● what we can do better.
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More information
Website
www.centralcoast.nsw.gov.au
Call
02 4325 8222
www.facebook.com/CentralCoastCouncil
www.twitter.com/CCoastCouncil
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