• Graeme Innes talks about access and inclusion

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    Former Disability Discrimination Commissioner and Play by the Rules co-Chair Graeme Innes talks about the importance of access issues for the 7 Pillars project. In particular on creating welcoming environments for everyone.

Access is really important for people with disability, and by access I mean the broader availability of opportunities to participate in whatever the opportunity might be, sport or any other community activity. That can include actual physical access, so venues and facilities need to provide physical access for people with mobility disabilities, but it also means the environment and the feeling in the environment so that there’s a welcoming approach to a person with disability participating that the difference that they might bring is not seen as a negative or as a problem and that the person can just fit in, basically, be accepted, be interacted with, not with their disability as the primary focus, but rather with themselves as a person and what they want to do.