Government policies must be reviewed to ensure those with disabilities are given "real and meaningful choice in their lives", Canberra advocates say.
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On Friday, the ACT Council of Social Services alongside People With Disabilities ACT released two separate reports highlighting policy failures that impacted on people with disabilities.
These included "significant" barriers to employment, mainstream health services and a lack of control over housing options.
Robert Altamore from People With Disabilities ACT said these limitations reduced the ability for those with disabilities to control their own lives.
"There is a fundamental disconnect between the operational principles of the classical market and the daily lives of people with disabilities.
"In the markets in which people with disabilities operate there is no equality of bargaining power between buyers and sellers.
"Limiting choice and control to a choice of provider in a market prevents people with disability having the full spectrum of real and meaningful choice in their lives, and therefore their ability to have control over their own life."
Susan Helyar, from the ACT Council of Social Services, said a stronger emphasis on human rights was needed to allow people with disabilities equal access to legal services and economic security.
"We need to get back on task with the human rights based choice and control agenda," she said.
"Investment is urgently needed to enable the full expression of choice and control by people living with disabilities."
To do so would require a reassessment of government policies and processes, Ms Helyar added.
"We need to monitor our progress against all components of the National Disability Strategy, including and beyond the NDIS and we need to ensure the planning processes, systems and resourcing through the NDIS actually promote choice and control."
The ACT Council of Social Services and People with Disabilities ACT will be holding a forum on the subject on June 14.
