Community Visitors
Alternative labels
Official Community Visitors (OCV)
Official Visitors (OV)
Official Visitors Disability (OVD)
Official Visitors Scheme
Health visitor
Description
This role title varies between Australian jurisdictions. The core role of the Community Visitor is to safeguard the interests and rights of vulnerable people who have a disability and are living in eligible services. Community Visitors are independent advocates who can ensure that the concerns, views and wishes of people in out of home care, supported accommodation and other institutionally managed settings are listened to and seriously considered.
Media release
Safe stay plan for remote community visitors
A new accommodation facility in Darwin will offer a safe place to stay for visitors from remote communities. Initiative: Safe Stay Plan for Remote Community Visitors
Report
"I'm too scared to come out of my room": preventing and responding to violence and abuse between co-residents in group homes
This report, informed by the lived experience of residents of disability group homes, makes recommendations to tackle how those systems should be adapted to protect people with disability from their co-residents.
Briefing paper
Legislative framework for aged care quality and safety regulation
This paper summarises the key aspects of quality and safety regulation provided for in the Aged Care Act 1997 (Aged Care Act), the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Act 2018 (Quality and Safety Commission Act) and supporting legislative instruments.
Report
Report on the Inquiry into the Quality of Care in Residential Aged Care Facilities in Australia
The current system of aged care is viewed by some as not working efficiently or to the benefit of the consumer. Residents, their family members and carers have expressed concerns at the complexity of the current residential aged care system. Members of the medical profession are of the view that the funding of aged care...
Report
The Victorian government response to the Community Visitors Annual Report 2015-2016
This report looks at a range of work that is underway across the disability, health and ageing sectors to strengthen and safeguard the rights of vulnerable Victorians.