Your feedback on our new inclusion (disability) action plan

What we’re doing

The draft inclusion (disability) action plan 2025–2029 outlines the City of Sydney’s commitment to ensuring everyone in our communities is actively working toward an inclusive and accessible community. A community where the human rights and diversity of all people with disability are recognised, respected and celebrated.

This plan will help ensure our city and our organisation, are accessible and inclusive and people with disability are provided with services and facilities that enable them to participate fully in the community.

It focuses on 4 key directions to build a more inclusive and accessible city for everyone:

1. Develop positive community attitudes and behaviours towards people with disability through community awareness and education.
2. Create more liveable communities for people with disability through improving the environment and services.
3. Achieve more meaningful employment for people with disability through inclusive employment practices and education.
4. Provide more equitable access to mainstream services for people with disability through better systems and processes, and access to information.

The plan includes priority actions to address outstanding and emerging issues faced by people with disability.

Over the next 4 years we’ll:

• enhance the visibility of people with disability, particularly non-visible and intersectional experiences of disability, through use of images and stories that showcase and celebrate the diversity of disability
• continue to improve access in our community facilities and public spaces and infrastructure to ensure our services, programs and events are inclusive for everyone
• develop a strategic approach to recruit, retain and develop employees with disability, from entry level to leadership and continue to develop a culture of diversity and inclusion
• provide accessible and inclusive communications, and empower advocacy, decision-making and engagement opportunities.

Other alternative formats are available on request. Please contact our social policy officer Jayne Gan to advise your requirements on 02 9265 9333 or email [email protected].

How you can give feedback

Consultation closes at 5pm on Wednesday 11 June 2025.

We invite people with disability their family and carers, disability service providers and disability representative organisations to provide feedback on the draft action plan.

1. Take our survey

   There are 6 questions in this survey with free text responses. If you feel you don’t know enough to comment on a particular section, please answer as best you can or leave this section blank. All responses are confidential.

   Online survey

2. Email or post your feedback

   You can give your feedback by email to [email protected] or post to:

   Jayne Gan, Social Policy Officer – Access and Inclusion
   Social City
   456 Kent Street
   Sydney NSW 2000

Please provide your name and address or the details of the organisation you represent in your submission. We won’t distribute your personal information without your consent. For more information see our privacy statement.

Next steps

We’ll consider all feedback and any relevant changes will be included in the final plan, which will be presented to Council in June 2025 for approval.

The inclusion (disability) action plan 2025–2029 will then take effect from 1 July 2025.