Better disability support for families and kids.
We are supporting parents and kids with disability.
We are already upgrading every specialist school in Victoria.
The changes we have made to include people with disability in all areas of life are the best in Australia.
But we will do more.
Labor will spend $207 million to support students with disability and their families.
Parents have told us that it is hard to find after-school and holiday care for their children.
That’s why we will extend outside hours care to every single specialist school in our state – with the next 25 rolling out from 2024, giving kids the extra learning and social connection they need, and parents the respite they deserve.
It will give kids and families more options.
Kids with disability and their families have more specialist appointments and checkups. It can mean spending lots of time travelling to appointments.
We will create spaces in schools for those services. It will reduce the amount of travel you need to do.
The NDIS has helped a lot of people with disability but lots of parents think it is hard to get what you need.
We will make this better by hiring new NDIS Navigators starting from July 2023. They will work with families to make the NDIS better and easier to navigate.
Labor's package also has:
$8.1 million for more extracurricular activities in specialist schools
$11.3 million to help get more speech pathologists and occupational therapists to regional Victoria
$2 million to help healthcare workers communicate better with people with autism
$8.2 million for TAFE transition officers to help students with disability
$25 million to build therapy pools at specialist schools
$3 million to help the Association for Children with a Disability
$100,000 for specialist schools to access an app for people who are non-verbal
Let kids under 18 with disability get an ID card if their parents want them to have one
We will also help train more therapy dogs.
We'll make sure more kids and young people with disabilities and their families, get the care and help that they need.
Because we're doing what matters.