A policy is a set of rules or ideas that tell people how they should do things. 

Reference Group members talked about the NDIA’s policy for supported decision-making.

Supported decision-making is when someone supports you to make your own decisions about your life.

Members talked about how this policy works for:

• young people
• families and supporters.

Members explained it’s important that young people:

• have their say on the policy
• make decisions about the policy.

Members also explained it’s important for the NDIA to support parents to understand the policy.

This includes sharing better information about how the policy will work.

Members shared it’s important the policy supports:

• parents to find out what’s best for their child

• the rights of children.

Rights are rules about how people must treat you:

• fairly
• equally.

Members also shared that the policy should have:

• ways to include different communities and groups

• a focus on family and domestic violence.

Family and domestic violence is when someone close to you hurts you, such as:

• your partner, like your boyfriend or girlfriend
• a member of your family
• someone who takes care of you
• someone you live with.