What do organisations need to do to become more inclusive in the way they govern? In this episode, Bernadette Curryer is joined by Side By Side Advocacy's Michelle Donelly (Board Chair) and Kim Roots (Executive Officer). They were involved in the creation of an Inclusive Governance Action Plan, based on the 5 Principles of inclusive governance explained in episode 2. We’ll hear about the changes this has brought to the organisation. 

This episode focuses on how people with intellectual disability can be involved in the decision-making of community organisations. We’ll hear from two guests with lived experience of intellectual disability. Katrina Sneath tells us what people with intellectual disability should know before thinking about before becoming a board member. Then Shu Hua Chan talks about her experience as a Board member of the Council for Intellectual Disability (CID).

In this episode, Bernadette Curryer and Katrina Sneath explain the 5 Principles of Inclusive Governance that came from the Inclusive Governance research project. You’ll also hear from Kim Roots (Executive Officer) who talks about what Side By Side Advocacy does to meet these principles.

This episode, hosted by Bernadette Curryer and Katrina Sneath, introduces the Inclusive Governance Project. It gives details of research that was done to understand the experience of inclusion of people with intellectual disability in the governance and decision-making of disability and community organisations. It talks about the research themes and the principles of inclusive governance that were identified.