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Community engagement with people with disabilities

Advice to help you make it easier for people with disabilities to be involved when you are engaging with the community.
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  • Engagement checklist

    The following checklist provides a potential structure for a project plan for community engagement with people with disabilities in particular.
  • Accessibility of the engagement and reporting process

    Tips on ensuring that your consultation material, venues, meetings and reports are accessible to people with disabilities.
  • Engaging with people with particular impairments

    Tips to support an effective engagement process with people with particular impairments.
  • Legal rights and obligations

    Disability is one of the prohibited grounds of discrimination under the Human Rights Act 1993.
  • Making a complaint or raising concerns

    This section contains information on how to make a complaint or raise concerns about potential violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation.

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