Our guiding principle is that people with disability, who access disability services, have the same rights as other members of the community.
This includes the right:
- to be respected for their human worth and to be treated with dignity as individuals
- to live free from abuse, neglect and exploitation
- to realise their individual capacity for physical, social, emotional and intellectual development
- to exercise choice and control over their lives
- to access information and communicate in a manner appropriate to their communication and cultural needs
- if a child, actively to involve the child's family and any other caregivers in decisions affecting the child and to have information and support to enable this to occur
- to choose disability workers with the values, skills and qualifications that meet their needs
- to access services which support their quality of life.
