Students with disability
Alternative labels
Disability inclusive education
Guide
Practice Guide: reasonable adjustments
This practice guide explains how registered Vocational Education and Training providers implement reasonable adjustments. It offers an overview of the practice, considerations, and checkpoints. It also links these adjustments to the regulatory framework and recommends free resources and training to help users build institutional capability.
Submission
Submission: Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system
This submission highlights how the Australian youth justice system is failing children and young people through early exclusion at school, missed disability support, unsafe detention practices and inconsistent access to education. The submission calls for strong Commonwealth leadership to set enforceable national standards that protect children’s rights and safety across all jurisdictions.
Report
Breaking the cycle: a blueprint for SEND reform
This report finds current support for children with special educational needs no longer works for the children, their families and the professionals inside and outside education settings. The paper considers the current challenges, the systemic causes and drivers of system failure and sets out a framework of recommendations to guide government reform.
Discussion paper
2025 Review of the Disability Standards for Education: discussion paper
A discussion paper reviewing the Disability Standards for Education 2005 to make sure they are supporting students to access and participate in education and training. The Standards are for education and training providers and explain how education must be inclusive for students with disability and help providers follow the Disability Discrimination Act.
Survey Report
The voice of Queenslanders with disability report 2025
This report provides insights gathered from Queenslanders with disability, family/carers and organisational representatives in 2025. Queenslanders shared what is going well and what is challenging across many aspects of their lives. There was progress in areas like health and safety and declines in employment and housing security.