Disability Access and Inclusion Plan

What is a Disability Access and Inclusion Plan?

The Western Australian Disability Services Act (1993) amended 2004 part 5 requires State Government agencies and local governments to develop and implement a Disability Access and Inclusion Plan (DAIP).
DAIPs provide a planned and systematic approach to progressively improve access. For example, access to public transport, government administration offices, the local library or swimming pool.

What is included in a DAIP?

Six desired outcomes need to be considered by public authorities when planning improved access for people with disabilities are:

1. People with disabilities have the same opportunities as other people to access the services of, and any events organised by, a public authority.
2. People with disabilities have the same opportunities as other people to access the buildings and other facilities of a public authority.
3. People with disabilities receive information from a public authority in a format that will enable them to access the information as readily as other people are able to access it.
4. People with disabilities receive the same level and quality of service from the staff of a public authority as other people receive from the staff of that public authority.
5. People with disabilities have the same opportunities as other people to make complaints to a public authority.
6. People with disabilities have the same opportunities as other people to participate in any public consultation by a public authority.

The Plan outlines strategies to achieve each outcome and broad time-lines for their completion across the five years of the Plan.
DAIPs are to be implemented by the staff, officers, agents and contractors of public authorities.