Welcome to IDRS

Welcome
to IDRS

IDRS is a free service for people with cognitive impairment across NSW. You do not need an NDIS package to access our service.

We provide help with legal problems, support persons at police stations and courts, advocacy, support to appeal decisions of the National Disability Insurance Agency, rights education for people with cognitive impairment, peer support and assistance for parents with intellectual disability at risk of losing care of their children.

We work alongside people with cognitive impairment to promote and protect rights.

Speaking up for First Nation’s parents with intellectual disability at the Disability Royal Commission today

Our Parents’ Program staff Kenn Clift (solicitor) and Julia Wren (parent advocate) are giving evidence to the Disability Royal Commission today Wednesday 25 November from 12md -1pm. The hearing is about Experiences of First Nation’s People with disability in their contact with child protection systems. Watch live: https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/

Our solicitor, Tim Chate, shines a light on abuse, neglect and unfair treatment experienced by people with disability who seek our help and the failure of complaints bodies to resolve their problems.

A disability advocate has detailed harrowing stories of abuse against some of Australia’s most vulnerable people – from physical assaults to being put in cages – by those paid by taxpayers to care for them. Tim Chate, a solicitor with the Intellectual Disability Rights Service, told a Senate inquiry a wheelchair-bound, non-verbal client was attacked […]

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