For Child Protection
Parents with Intellectual Disability Have Rights
Parents with intellectual disability have the right to:
- Be a Parent
- Have the same rights as all parents
- Have programs made to meet their needs, this could include extra time and support
- Have information given to them in Plain English or in a way they can best understand
- Speak up for themselves
- Be listened to
- Get help
- Have a support person with them at all meetings
- Ask for support and get support
- Have the right kind of support for their individual needs
- Have support to go to access visits with their children
- Advocacy
- Ask for advocacy
- Ask child protection what they think the problem is
- Ask child protection to come back or call back when the parent has support with them
- Ask child protection for copies of all documents
- Ask child protection questions
- Get truthful answers
- Get legal support
- Get help to connect to the NDIS
Resources made for workers
Hand in Hand Report
This report was created with parents from across Victoria supported by various services
Hand-in-Hand-Parents-meeting-final.pdf
How to create a Plain English document
Are you working with a family that needs information in easy English?
Please click the link this resource
Working-with-People-who-use-Plain-English.pdf
Working with Parents with an Intellectual Disability
This resource is created to support organisations working with people with intellectual disability
https://www.parentingrc.org.au/programs/healthy-start/