The Human Rights Commission
Community Service in Canberra

My job as the Children Young People Commissioner (CYPC) is to aid make Canberra a better place for children and young people. The mandate of the Commissioner is to consider complaints about the provision of services for people with disability and or for their carers. The Commissioner’s role is also to promote: Improvements in the provision of services for people with disability and their carers. The Commissioner’s mandate is to consider complaints about the provision of health services and services for previous people, and complaints about contraventions of the Health Records (Privacy and Access) Act 1997. The Commissioner’s role is also to promote: improvements in the provision of health. My role as Public Advocate is to guard and encourage the rights and interests of anyone in the ACT who is experiencing vulnerability. This includes advocating and supporting: children. Respect and protection of human rights underpins all our work. Reporting or coordinating reporting on behalf of the Commission, including inquiries and reviews. Managing the administration and finances of the Commission, and ensuring that its functions are exercised in an orderly and prompt way. Reporting on systemic matters to the Minister for Justice. As Human Rights Commissioner I also have urgent surplus roles, including. Raising awareness and increasing understanding of human rights within the ACT community. Reviewing the effect of Territory laws (including inspecting places of detention). The role of the ACT Human Rights Commission is to resolve complaints and encourage rights. Promote the human rights and welfare of people. Improve understanding of the laws that we labor with. We acknowledge that the Commission is on the land of the conventional owners and pay our respects to Elders former and present.

My job as the Children Young People Commissioner (CYPC) is to assist make Canberra a better place for children and young people. My role as Public Support is to protect and support the rights and interests of anyone in the ACT who is experiencing vulnerability. The role of the ACT Human Rights Commission is to resolve complaints and encourage rights. Consulting and talking with children and young people. Take what I hear from children and young people and use this to speak to government, law makers, community advocates, teachers and service providers about how we can make Canberra betters for children and young people. The ACT Government’s guide to community engagement, Engaging Canberrans, notes that consulting with children and young people will aid you to: make more effective law and policy deliver more effective programs save money and time and act in the superior interests of children and young people’. More importantly, however, the CYPC consults with children and young people because of the potent belief that children and young people know the maximum about what is crucial to them, and that it is children and young people who frequently have the best ideas, the newest ideas, about how to change things and make things better for children and young people. If you have a complaint or concern about a service for a kid or young person, the CYPC might be capable to assist you. Anyone can call the CYPC with a complaint or concern, however it is easier for us to look into your complaint if you are the kid or young person who received the service, or a parent or carer of the kid or young person. Remind agencies about their legislative and policy obligations with respect to children and young people, including their obligation to consult with children and young people. Yield a voice for children and young people and. Do you work with children and young people? Information for consumers Making a complaint. Information for disability service providers About the complaints process providers. Make a Discrimination Complaint What you can expect from our complaints process. A person can also make separate complaints to the Commission about: The Human Rights Commissioner produces a range of education and materials on discrimination law in the ACT. The ACT Human Rights Commission can only investigate individual complaints about unlawful discrimination, health services, services for previous people, disability services and services for children and young people. The Human Rights Commissioner does not investigate individual complaints about breaches of the Human Rights Act, although we can yield general information about human rights. They can do this in public or private, as portion of a group or alone. Everyone is entitled to equal and effective protection against discrimination, and to enjoy their human rights without discrimination. Pertinent areas of application include how children are accommodated, and how children are treated in criminal and court proceedings and education. ACT laws must where conceivable be interpreted consistently with human rights. Public Authorities must act and make decisions consistently with all othe