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Council forQ Intellectual DisabilityLJ
Submission to Disability Royal Commission
Saying sorry for disability institutions
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Submission to Disability Royal Commission
- submission This document is a called a submission. A submission tells you what someone thinks about a topic.
This submission is by Council for
Council for Intellectual Disability.□ Intellectual Disability LJ
CID for short.
Cl D is based in New South Wales.
This submission is about disability institutions.
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Disability institutions are big places where people with disability live together.
Many people with intellectual disability used to live in disability institutions.
People with disability lived in institutions
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Government policy is when the Government
says how things should be done.
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What the Disability Royal Commission should
tell Government
Governments should make an apology for their disability institutions policies. sorry
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should both apologise. NSW GOVERNMENT
An apology is being honest about something that hurt people and saying sorry.
When Governments apologise they should show they are sorry through actions.
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Actions could be
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Ask people with disability what they want done to make things better
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Listen to what people say
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Do not do the wrong thing again
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Make up for things that were wrong
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Change laws and systems to stop bad things happening again.
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Governments should include people with intellectual disability in decisions about disability institutions
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with intellectual disability think about disability00 institutions
Governments should take responsibility for their disability policies
Policy
Even if the policies happened a long time ago
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Other information we think is important
Some people do research about disability institutions.
Research is when you find a lot of information about a topic.
People at the University of Technology
UNIVERSITY ♦... OFTIECIHNOLOG,Y Sydney have done research about
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They have made a submission to the Disability Royal Commission.
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Council for
Intellectual Disability CID helped in this work.□LJ
We think it is an important submission so we put it on our website.
It is in Easy Read.
www.bit.ly/remembering_institutions
Other important research is about disability
institutions and government policy. -- This information is also on our website.
It is not in Easy Read.
www.bit.ly/research_case_study
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Other groups who support this submission
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This submission is by CID.
It is supported by these organisations
Inclusion Australia
Speak Out Tasmania
SACID South Australian
DDWA West Australia
Parent2Parent Queensland
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