TAFE SA will influence attitudes, remove barriers to participation, and ensure its environments, communications and services enable people with disability to participate fully, independently and safely in education, work and community life. This domain prioritises accessibility, universal design, inclusive engagement, and consultation with people with disability across physical, digital and social environments.

• Priority Area 1: Active Participation

  TAFE SA will enable people with disability to actively participate in learning, work and community life by ensuring events, activities and campuses are accessible, inclusive and flexible. This includes prioritising accessible venues, expanding virtual participation options, delivering events across metropolitan and regional campuses, training staff in inclusive event planning, and ensuring Auslan interpreting is planned, available and informed by feedback from Deaf and hard‑of‑hearing participants.

• Priority Area 2: Inclusive Communities and Attitudes

  TAFE SA will actively build inclusive attitudes and behaviours by increasing awareness of disability, including hidden disabilities, and strengthening staff capability to provide respectful, culturally appropriate and effective support. This includes professional development, cross‑team collaboration to better understand learner support needs, and targeted initiatives that recognise intersectionality, including commitments aligned to Closing the Gap and other priority groups.

• Priority Area 3: Universal Design

  TAFE SA will embed universal design principles across physical and virtual environments to ensure spaces are accessible, adaptable and usable by everyone. This includes accessibility audits and remediation planning, accessible learning environments and software, improved campus wayfinding, accessible car parking, seating and break spaces, and the direct involvement of people with lived experience in auditing, planning and updating accessibility information.

• Priority Area 4: Accessible Facilities

  TAFE SA will progressively improve the accessibility of core facilities to meet current standards and community needs. This includes increasing the number and quality of accessible toilets and accessible entrances across campuses, informed by audits and long‑term infrastructure planning.

• Priority Area 5: Communications and Information

  TAFE SA will ensure people with disability can access information in the formats they need, when they need it. This includes sector‑wide implementation of accessibility technology in the LMS, improved accessibility across websites and intranets, accessible branding and marketing practices, better support for live captioning and Auslan in virtual environments, mandated use of accessibility tools for documents, and targeted communications to students and staff with disability across multiple channels.

• Priority Area 6: Transportation

  TAFE SA will support safe and accessible access to campuses and off‑campus activities. This includes reviewing campus access points, drop‑off and pick‑up areas, raising awareness of Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs), supporting reasonable adjustments for off‑campus learning activities, and ensuring students are provided with clear transport, parking and access information during orientation and onboarding.

• Priority Area 7: Collaboration, Consultation and Innovation

  TAFE SA will ensure people with disability are actively involved in decisions that affect their experiences. This includes structured consultation with staff and students with lived experience in policy, procedure and environment reviews, use of inclusive data collection practices, and formal engagement with the People with Disability Employee Network to inform, monitor and improve DAIP actions.

• Priority Area 8: Housing

  TAFE SA will support people with disability to access appropriate accommodation through information, referrals and continuous improvement of TAFE SA‑managed accommodation. This includes strengthening referral pathways through student support services, building staff capability around accommodation supports, and ongoing audits and action planning to improve accessibility of TAFE SA accommodation facilities.

TAFE SA will remove barriers to learning and earning by strengthening staff capability, improving supports for children, young people and adults with disability, enabling smooth transitions through education and into employment, fostering inclusive workplaces, and using data to drive continuous improvement.
This domain prioritises inclusive education practice, targeted transition and employment supports, equitable workplace environments, and evidence‑informed decision‑making.

• Priority Area 1: Targeted Knowledge, Understanding and Support

  TAFE SA will build an education workforce with the knowledge, skills and confidence to support students with disability to succeed. This includes strengthening staff awareness and capability through targeted training, including Disability Standards for Education training, and monitoring participation across teaching and learning and people management roles.

• Priority Area 2: Supports and Resources for Children and Young People

  TAFE SA will ensure children and young people with disability feel welcomed, supported and prepared for inclusive education pathways from the earliest engagement. This includes early outreach to schools, campus visits and transition activities, implementation of Universal Design for Learning principles across teaching practice, equitable access to counselling and learning support services in regional and non metropolitan areas, and delivery of high quality education in Early Childhood Education and Educational Support to strengthen the broader inclusive education workforce.

• Priority Area 3: Targeted Transitional Supports

  TAFE SA will provide supportive environments that enable people with disability to transition confidently between education stages and into employment. This includes strengthening partnerships with schools and VET coordinators, delivering tailored transition processes and orientation programs for students with disability, supporting skill development for education to employment pathways, and working with employers, industry and disability organisations to create pathways into work experience, placements, internships and employment.

• Priority Area 4: Access to Employment Opportunities

  TAFE SA will actively increase employment opportunities for people with disability, both within TAFE SA and through industry engagement. This includes developing targeted employment programs, identifying entry level and supported employment pathways, and ensuring additional onboarding, mentoring and professional development opportunities are available for staff with disability, with a focus on intersectional equity.

• Priority Area 5: Inclusive Working Environments

  TAFE SA will create workplaces where people with disability can earn in environments that are inclusive, flexible and supportive by default. This includes embedding inclusive practices into recruitment, onboarding and performance processes, improving access to flexible and remote work, clearly communicating reasonable adjustment processes, aligning employment practices with the SA Public Sector Disability Employment Strategy, and using staff sentiment data to monitor lived experience of inclusion.

• Priority Area 6: Data and Reporting

  TAFE SA will strengthen the collection, use and sharing of disability related data to inform policy, practice and decision making. This includes ensuring policies and practices are evidence informed, improving student self identification processes, using robust data to monitor outcomes for people with disability, and providing relevant insights to faculties and executive leadership.

TAFE SA will take a person centred approach to support, enabling people with disability to access coordinated, timely and respectful personal and community supports that recognise their rights, choices, contributions and potential. This domain prioritises accessibility of services, advocacy and rights based support, effective information sharing, inclusion of families and carers, and inclusive program design through collaboration with government and community partners. .

• Priority Area 1: Accessibility

  TAFE SA will improve access to community supports and services by strengthening partnerships with disability and community organisations and relevant government agencies. This includes increasing co location and referral opportunities, sharing information on available services, and supporting community engagement for people with disability, including Aboriginal people with disability, people experiencing vulnerability, and women in regional communities.

• Priority Area 2: Advocacy and Supports

  TAFE SA will support people with disability to make informed choices, exercise their rights and access advocacy when required. This includes improving access to information about disability rights and advocacy services, strengthening referral pathways to advocacy organisations, and developing advocacy support through the People with Disability Employee Network, with consultation on student advocacy network options.

• Priority Area 3: Information Sharing

  TAFE SA will strengthen coordination and information sharing so people with disability receive timely, consistent and effective support. This includes partnering with community organisations to increase awareness of disability supports in education settings, expanding place based initiatives, and improving processes to ensure Access Plan information is shared with relevant staff promptly, accurately and in accessible formats.

• Priority Area 4: Family and Carer Support

  TAFE SA will recognise and support the role of families and carers in enabling the success and wellbeing of people with disability. This includes involving family members and carers in support planning when requested by students and with informed consent, and strengthening flexible working arrangements for staff with caring responsibilities through clear, consistent and inclusive workplace practices.

• Priority Area 5: Programs

  TAFE SA will ensure government funded programs and services are inclusive and enable full participation by people with disability. This includes reviewing existing programs to embed disability specific provisions, supporting reasonable adjustments and participation assistance, and collaborating with funding bodies to co design inclusive program criteria that reflect the needs and experiences of people with disability.

TAFE SA will support the health and wellbeing of people with disability by ensuring inclusive health infrastructure, improving access to responsive and culturally appropriate supports, and strengthening referral pathways to coordinated health and mental health services. This domain prioritises accessibility of health and wellbeing programs, intersectional and carer aware support, and strong connections between disability, health and mental health systems.

• Priority Area 1: Inclusive Infrastructure

  TAFE SA will ensure health and wellbeing infrastructure, programs and feedback mechanisms are accessible and inclusive for staff and students with disability. This includes considering accessibility in the design and delivery of all health and wellbeing programs, identifying and addressing facility upgrades through audits, increasing availability of health programs and information for diverse groups, and establishing clear, accessible feedback processes for staff and students to raise health related accessibility issues.

• Priority Area 2: Targeted Knowledge, Understanding and Support

  TAFE SA will enable people with disability to access healthcare that is inclusive, flexible and responsive to diverse needs and life circumstances. This includes providing accommodations for staff and students who require increased access to healthcare, recognising the role of carers, and partnering with culturally responsive community and healthcare organisations to support equitable access for Aboriginal peoples, culturally diverse communities, women, and people with disability who identify as LGBTIQA+.

• Priority Area 3: Supports and Interventions

  TAFE SA will strengthen coordination between disability, health and mental health supports to ensure people with disability receive timely and appropriate assistance. This includes establishing clear processes for networking, referral and connection to specialised support services, enabling staff and students to navigate and access the right supports when needed.

TAFE SA will strengthen safety, rights awareness and safeguarding by ensuring inclusive policies and practices, preparedness for emergencies, access to appropriate supports when navigating justice systems, meaningful consultation with people with disability, and clear, accessible safeguarding pathways. This domain prioritises rights based practice, emergency preparedness, inclusive safeguarding, and mechanisms that enable people with disability to feel safe, heard and supported.

• Priority Area 1: Targeted Knowledge, Understanding and Support

  TAFE SA will ensure people with disability are understood, supported and have their rights upheld through inclusive, contemporary and rights based institutional practices. This includes reviewing and updating policies and procedures to ensure inclusive language and legislative alignment, increasing awareness of disability rights and available supports, and providing culturally appropriate resources in accessible formats for people with diverse identities, communication needs and lived experiences.

• Priority Area 2: Responding to Emergencies

  TAFE SA will ensure people with disability are kept safe during emergencies and that their needs are planned for and prioritised. This includes implementing Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs) where required, ensuring relevant parties are informed and prepared, and embedding safeguarding considerations into emergency planning across the organisation.

• Priority Area 3: Support and Navigating the Justice System

  TAFE SA will support people with disability to access the right assistance when interacting with the justice system. This includes ensuring existing support services can facilitate referrals to appropriate external services, strengthening staff capability through disability inclusive justice navigation training, and aligning with relevant focus areas of the Autism Action Plan where applicable.

• Priority Area 4: Consultation and Collaboration

  TAFE SA will ensure people with disability are involved in shaping policies, programs and services that affect their safety and rights. This includes establishing accessible and timely feedback mechanisms, supporting regular engagement through the People with Disability staff network, and providing opportunities for both identified and anonymous feedback to inform continuous improvement.

• Priority Area 5: Safeguarding

  TAFE SA will strengthen safeguarding systems so people with disability can access safe, inclusive and responsive supports. This includes increasing staff capability through safeguarding and disability inclusion training and expanding safeguarding pathways so concerns can be raised and addressed through multiple accessible channels, including online, in person and interpreter supported options.