OUR PERFORMANCE
DP Action
3.4.1b: Complete plans of management for all sporting fields in the Georges River LGA.
Status
Ongoing
Comment
This work is being completed over three years.
Action Name
Status
Develop innovative funding and delivery models to implement priority projects and recommendations from the Georges River Council Open Space, Recreation and Community Facilities Strategy.
Comment Completed.
Statutory information Disability Inclusion Action Plan Work continued in 2020/21 to meet out commitment to the four key focus areas of the Disability Inclusion Action Plan: building positive attitudes; creating liveable communities; supporting access to meaningful employment; and accessible systems, information or processes.
Building positive attitudes We continued to partner with local community groups to showcase the contribution people with disability make in our community. Local disability groups have been assisted financially through our Community Grants Program to support their programs, work, and resources to advocate and raise their profile to work in the community. These included funding under the Capacity Building Grant category for a range of projects: The Cerebral Palsy Alliance received funding for communication equipment for people with disability; Learning Links for supporting children with learning disabilities and difficulties in the Georges River community; The Shepherd Centre for Deaf Children for supporting children with hearing loss and their families; Dance for Parkinson’s Australia for movement classes; Jubilee Community Services Incorporated for an accessible art program for people with autism; and Children with Disabilities Fund Inc. for music therapy for children with disabilities.
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Our early learning centres worked with children with disabilities along with their families and allied health professionals in 2020/21. An important part of this relationship has been working with all other enrolled children and families and building acceptance and understanding of others, irrespective of differences in ability. The centres aim to instil this approach from a young age to strengthen long-term positive community attitudes. The Access and Inclusion Reference Group endorsed images chosen to present people with disability in a positive manner - these are now available for use across our publications and website. We purchased disability awareness training material from the Centre for Inclusive Design. Two direct facilitated training sessions were planned for key publicfacing staff, the first one running for 15 staff members and the second postponed due to the emerging COVID-19 situation at the time. We will include disability awareness training in all new staff inductions.
Creating liveable communities Following a comprehensive access audit of the Netstrata Jubilee Stadium in March 2020, we replaced the tactile ground surface indicator systems at Gate A and Gate D, which are the two largest and most heavily used ingress gates during stadium events. We engaged Accessible Arts to provide accessibility audits across a few different areas. A ‘walk and talk’ audit of Council’s Carss Park Artist’s cottage identified several simple changes to ensure the artist-in-residence program is accessible. A second ‘walk and talk’ audit
