Our Plan explains how we will make the Shire more accessible and inclusive.

Our Plan has 3 themes.

Themes are important ideas that come up in different areas of our work and lives.

1. Building accessible places.

2. Improving how we communicate.

3. Making our community more inclusive.

We explain each theme in the following sections.

We want our community to be more accessible for everyone.

We will make sure that we think about how to make things accessible when we start to plan:

• events in the community

• new pathways and places.

We also want to use people’s lived experience to support how we design and build places.

If you have lived experience of disability, you might:

• have a disability

or

• have experienced what life can be like for people with disability.

Our Access and Inclusion Advisory Group will help us understand lived experience.

An advisory group is a group of people who work with us to share what:

• is working well
• needs to work better.

We will work with the advisory group to learn:

• what people with lived experience have to say

• how they think we can better support people with disability.

We want to improve how we:

• communicate with our community
• share information.

We will make sure information is accessible for people with disability.

This includes information about:

• services
• places
• jobs.

We will make sure our website includes information about accessible places in the community.

We will also check that the way people can make complaints is accessible.

We will do this every year.

When you make a complaint, you tell someone that something: 

• has gone wrong 
• isn’t working well. 

We want to create better attitudes towards disability in the Shire.

Your attitude is what you:

• think
• feel
• believe.

This includes attitudes about how to be accessible and inclusive.

We will share information about how organisations can include people with disability.

We will also share stories about businesses that do well at being:

• inclusive
• accessible.

We will support events that show the benefits of including people with disability.

For example, we will celebrate International Day of People with Disability.

We will also support employers to hire people with disability.

An employer is a person who hires other people to work for them.

This includes making sure the way we hire new staff is accessible for people with disability.