We did our research because people with disability have shared that they were treated unfairly.

They told us they had bad experiences with different services.

These services include:

• health services, like a hospital or doctor

• education and training services, like a school or university.

It also included social services.

Social services are lots of different services that help people manage their day to day lives.

And it included the justice system.

The justice system includes:

• police
• the courts
• the law
• prisons.

People might treat people with disability unfairly because they don’t understand what:

• disability is
• people with disability need.

People with disability told us that sometimes they don’t get the support they need.

This happens when services think people with disability don’t have:

• the same needs as other people

• skills to do things other people can, like making their own choices.

People with disability might also be treated unfairly because of other things about them.

This includes their:

• sexuality – who they love or are attracted to

• gender – who they feel they are as a person.

It also includes their culture.

Your culture is:

• your way of life

• how you think or act now because of how you grew up

• your beliefs

• what is important to you.