AFI have made a substantive submission to the ACT Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Education and Community Inclusion inquiry into loneliness and social isolation.
Our submission addresses, to varying extents, the social, economic, and health consequences of loneliness and social isolation for people with disability.
It also emphasises the continued impact of COVID-19 for people with disability.
It concludes with a focus on some of the causes of loneliness and isolation amongst people with disability plus policy priorities and initiatives which might start to address these.
Speciifically it reccomends action on access to transport, spaces and places; COVID safe spaces; occupational therapy and social supports in health and care settings; a restoration of information and referral services on sports, tourism, recreation and the arts and highlights the need for a disabilitty participant agenda outside employment including non elite sports, arts and recreation