What is Consultation & Engagement?

• Consultation and engagement will seek, contact, engage and involve and empower disabled people to inform the decision making process.
• Consultation and engagement will communicate your issues effectively with disabled people to deliver practical recommendations for your project.
• Consultation and engagement will provide accessible and inclusive communication with disabled people using alternative formats, communication workers, inclusive means, methods, venues and administration.
• Consultation and engagement will encourage disabled people ito deliver recommendations beyond prescriptive standards through statistical, anecdotal and evidential experience.
• Consultation and engagement with disabled people can offer solutions to specific problematice access issues that do not have an applicable standard.
• Consultation and engagement helps project personnel to understand the needs of complex disabilities and how those needs can be better accommodated within the project delivery and ultimate outcomes.
• Consultation and engagement can involve project teams in consultation with disabled people to communicate and interact directly with decision makers, designers and clients.
• Consultation and engagement can educate and inform key personnel through direct involvement with disabled people.