The Social Deck delivered national public engagement over a 10-week period in early 2023 to support the Review of the impact of COVID-19 on school students with disability.
We spoke with over 1000 students with disability, parents and carers, teachers, principals and organisations to find out about their experiences and what could have been done differently.
We coordinated and facilitated a range of activities to support the engagement including webinars, focus groups, a student survey and questionnaire, online discussion boards, interviews and a formal submissions process.
We also worked with young people with disability to share their stories via short videos and to encourage others to get involved.
All activity was hosted on an engagement hub we designed for the Review.
We worked with lived experience partners to tailor engagements to support targeted consultation with diverse and intersecting groups, including First Nations and CALD students and families and people with different communication needs and preferences.
The insights from these engagements are being used to inform the Government report about the Review.
We worked with the Department of Education to deliver national consultations for the Review of the impact of COVID-19 on school students with disability.
The Social Deck acknowledges the traditional custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and community. Our staff live and work on the lands of many First Nations peoples, including the Gubbi Gubbi or Kabi Kabi people, the Turrbal and Yuggera people, the Bundjalung people, the Ngarigo and Ngunnawal people and the Wadawurrung people. These peoples have lived on and cared for these lands for thousands of generations, and their sovereignty has never been ceded. We pay our respects to them and their cultures, and to elders past and present.
The Social Deck acknowledges the traditional custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and community. Our staff live and work on the lands of many First Nations peoples, including the Gubbi Gubbi or Kabi Kabi people, the Turrbal and Yuggera people, the Bundjalung people, the Ngarigo and Ngunnawal people and the Wadawurrung people. These peoples have lived on and cared for these lands for thousands of generations, and their sovereignty has never been ceded. We pay our respects to them and their cultures, and to elders past and present.
