Your Rights
Aussies Disability Services will safely support you, our staff and other clients.
You have the right to:
- Say it’s ok to receive a service that suits your support needs and choices
- Refuse or leave a service at any time
- Receive information relating to services delivered by Aussies Disability Services
- Have your say in decisions about the services you receive from Aussies Disability Services
- Be treated as an individual, with respect, to live safely and enjoy activities without neglect, anger or being abused
- Have staff help you to stay well and healthy and support you to get proper medical care
- Communicate freely about your worries and make a complaint if you are not happy with a service you receive
- Be responsible for your own choices and decisions
- Have your privacy respected
- Be included in any talks or decisions about your life and activities
- Have opportunities for appropriate social contacts and friendships
- Access services and activities that are available to others in the community
- Be supported by staff members to reach your capacity for physical, social, spiritual, emotional and intellectual growth
- Have your religious and cultural beliefs acknowledged and respected
- Have your private information kept private and confidential and not given to anyone outside Aussies Disability Services without your permission (unless required by law)