The Disability Sector Strengthening Plan (Disability SSP) has been developed to support achievement of Priority Reform Two of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap (the National Agreement) to build the community-controlled disability sector. The Disability SSP outlines high-level priorities and actions at a national level, which all Parties, through the Joint Council on Closing the Gap (the Joint Council), agree to in-principle. The Disability SSP is offered as a resource to be used over the next three years to prioritise, partner and negotiate beneficial sector-strengthening strategies. Jurisdictions, through shared decision-making processes, will implement the Disability SSP and include specific localised actions, including funding commitments, in their annual Closing the Gap Implementation Plan updates.

The Plan sets an ambitious agenda to build the community-controlled sector, including:

• Growing the First Nations disability workforce and establishing First Nations Disability Workforce Sector Principles
• Increasing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled organisations and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled health organisations to deliver disability services
• Ensuring community-controlled organisations and buildings meet accessibility and inclusions standards
• Ensuring information and communications systems used by the community-controlled sector are accessible
• Supporting innovation in the community-controlled sector to increase, maximise and improve the current disability services and support capacity
• Developing disability and First Nations engagement principles and protocols.