The Physical
Disability Council of NSW (PDCN) supports the
Federal Government strategy to look at ways to
help people with a disability or mental illness
to find or retain employment.
The Minister for
Employment Participation, Brendan O'Connor MP
and the Parliamentary Secretary for Disability
and Children's Services, Bill Shorten MP, will
jointly oversee a National Mental Health and
Disability Employment Strategy, announced
February 15.
This National Disability
Strategy is to be developed in close
consultation with people with disability,
employers, disability employment service and
training providers.
PDCN strongly endorses the
inclusion of persons with disability in the body
which will develop the new National Mental
Health and Disability Employment Strategy. PDCN
believes that current pertinent information
about physical disability can be and should be
obtained from people who identify as having a
disability, as well as their carers, and service
providers.
PDCN is pleased that
serious measures are being planned to overcome
the barriers to employment which currently
confront people with physical
disability.
Consultations will begin
in April and be held in capital cities of each
state and territory with the strategy to be
released by the end of the year.
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