Disability Strategy Refresh
We welcome the draft Disability Strategy's focus on improving outcomes for disabled people.
The Mental Health Foundation welcomes the draft Disability Strategy's focus on improving outcomes for disabled people, and its role in giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
We recommend the Strategy be strengthened by:
- Showing clearer support for people with long-term mental health challenges, neurodivergence and other cognitive impairments
- Detailing explicit actions to improve the mental health and wellbeing of all disabled people
- Adopting the Enabling Good Lives principles
- Strengthening its commitments to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and
- Providing clarity on how its proposed actions will be assigned, resourced and measured.
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