Disability Standards for Education - Australian Government

Description

You will be required to comply with this standard if you are an education or training provider. Education providers include:

  • preschools
  • public and private primary and secondary schools
  • post compulsory education and training authorities and providers (including private training providers, industry skills centres and Registered Training Organisations)
  • higher education providers
  • providers of adult and community education
  • organisations or bodies involved in the development and accreditation of curricula, training packages or courses.

This standard sets out the minimum requirements and clarifies obligations regarding access, reasonable adjustments, enrolment, participation and curriculum design with the aim of ensuring that students with a disability have the same access to education as the rest of the community.

Service type

Code of Practice

A code of practice is a set of rules which details how people in a certain industry should behave. A code of practice can be defined as a result of legislation or by industry regulators and bodies.

Forms

Act(s) name

Disability Discrimination Act 1992 Australian Government

Regulation(s) name

Disability Discrimination Regulations 2019 Australian Government

Administering agency

Attorney-General's Department

Human Rights Commission

Contact details

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General Enquiries

Human Rights Commission

Attorney-General's Department
Operating address: Level 3
175 Pitt Street
Sydney, New South Wales 2000
Mailing address: GPO BOX 5218
Sydney, New South Wales 2001
Phone: 02 9284 9600
Phone: 1300 369 711
Email: infoservice@humanrights.gov.au