Official documents
National Disability Advocacy Framework 2023 – 2025
Disability Advocacy Work Plan 2023-2025
DANA submissions:
Pre-Budget Submission – A strong sustainable future: addressing capacity shortfalls for a strengthened disability advocacy sector (November 2023)
Developing a Not-for-profit Sector Development Blueprint (December 2023)
A stronger, more diverse and independent community sector (November 2023)
Independent disability advocacy – Submission to the Disability Royal Commission (December 2022)
Submission on the National Disability Advocacy Framework (July, 2022)
DANA analysis:
Summary Report from Public Consultation on DRC Recommendations Released
Headlines from the Budget: Key Points for Advocates and the Disability Community
NDIS Review agrees advocacy plays a crucial role
The many roles for independent advocacy in supporting and driving transformative change
Royal Commission: Analysing the recommendations on independent disability advocacy
Making sure people with disability are safe and have quality supports
Other relevant material:
Final Report from the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability – Volume 6, Enabling autonomy and access – Chapter 3 covers Advocacy and informal supports, from p255
NDAP Engagement Survey, Warm Referral from Disability Advocacy Support Helpline: Results and Recommendations. (2023) Customer Driven (consultants engage by
Increased funding to meet demand for disability advocacy – Taylor Fry and the Centre for International Economics (2023) (commissioned by the Disability Royal Commission to inform their recommendations).
Public submissions to the NDAF consultation in 2022
A Cost Benefit Analysis of Australian independent disability advocacy agencies (2017) – Report commissioned by DANA, authored by Emeritus Professor Anne Daly, Greg Barrett and Rhiân Williams – originally published in August 2017 and re-examined in March 2021 as outlining an ongoing clear and strong economic rationale for investing in advocacy.
Review into Disability Advocacy in NSW (2019) NSW Ageing and Disability Commissioner
Demand and Gap Analysis Project Summary, 2020 – Full report authored by ASK Insight, consultants engaged by DSS.
The Impact of the NDIS on The Victorian Disability Advocacy Sector – Final Report to the Project Management Group – (2020) Future Social Service Institute – Victorian Council of Social Service and RMIT University.
A public consultation on the National Disability Advocacy Program was conducted in 2016, with submissions from many DANA members and National peaks.
A public consultation on the National Disability Advocacy Framework was conducted in 2015 – over a hundred submissions from a range of stakeholders were published.