What is the Disability Royal Commission?

A Royal Commission is an official way of looking into a big problem.

It helps us to work out what went wrong and what we need to fix.

In 2019, the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability started.

We call it the Disability Royal Commission.

We need the Disability Royal Commission because know that people with disability experience:

• violence – if someone is hurting
  you physically
• abuse – if someone is treating
  you badly
• neglect – if someone is not helping you the way they are supposed to help you
• exploitation – if someone is taking advantage of you.

The Disability Royal Commission will look at all of the groups that provide services to people with disability.

They include:

• the government
• institutions – any large organisation such as a service provider, a school, a workplace, a business or a charity
• the community.

The Disability Royal Commission will look at what has stopped people from:

• reporting a problem
• looking into a problem
• taking action.

It will go until 2022.

Learn more on the Disability Royal Commission website.

You can also download WWDA’s Easy English and Easy Read fact sheets about the Disability Royal Commission on our Easy English resource page.