Response to DADHC 2004 CALD Action Plan

Services > Systemic Advocacy > 2004 - DADHC CALD Action Plan

MDAA, together with 20 other agencies, participated in the development of a CALD Joint Action Plan. DADHC recently signed off this plan as their commitment to a partnership approach to improving accessibility and responsiveness of services for people with a disability, older people and their carers from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. DADHC see this as demonstrating 'shared commitment in improving access and responsiveness of services' and operate from the perspective that all participating organisations are recognised as equal partners in the formulation and implementation of the Joint Action Plan.

MDAA continues to express our concerns with this plan. We are particularly disturbed about the lack of any commitment to improving access and responsiveness of DADHC provided services, as well as a lack of any significant initiatives to enhance access for people to DADHC funded services. MDAA is also disappointed about the plan's short time frame (June 2004). We are concerned that this represents a piecemeal approach, which achieves little but placates critics.

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