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DDA Action Plans

Disability Discrimination Act action plans

Private sector, local and State Government and community organisations can submit DDA action plans to HREOC voluntarily.

An increasing number have done so, recognising the need to ensure they comply with their obligations under the DDA and the usefulness of an action plan for this purpose.

For Commonwealth departments and authorities, however, preparation and lodgement of action plans is required.

"Each department and authority will incorporate equal opportunity objectives into corporate planning by ........1997 .......and..... lodge action plans with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission".

The requirements of the DDA for action plans for Commonwealth Government Departments are as follows:

The action plan of a service provider must include provisions relating to:

(a) the devising of policies and programs to achieve the objects of this Act

b) the communication of these policies and programs to persons within the service provider 

(c) the review of practices within the service provider with a view to the identification of any discriminatory practices

(d) the setting of goals and targets, where these may reasonably be determined, against which the success of the plan in achieving the objects of the Act may be assessed

e) the means, other than those referred to in paragraph (d) above, of evaluating the policies and programs referred to in paragraph (a)

(f ) the appointment of persons, within the service provider to implement the provisions referred to in paragraphs (a) and (e) (inclusive)