Table 2 Thematic framework
Area | Explanation |
|---|---|
Accessible information | Provision of all information in accessible formats, including sign language translation, Braile script, and easy read. |
Access to healthcare | Removal of financial barriers to care, and measures taken to ensure equitable access to healthcare, including measures addressing disability-based discrimination. |
Access to education | Measures taken to ensure remote learning is fully accessible. |
Financial support | Provision of financial support (e.g. cash transfers or benefits), to disabled people and their family members, if they had to stop working, and measures taken to ensure access to financial support, including automatic extension of disability benefits. |
Protection of people living in residential settings | Measures taken to ensure people living in residential care are protected from infection. |
Reasonable accommodations for disabled people | Adjustments to public health measures to accommodate the needs of disabled people, including flexibility in restrictions on movement in public spaces. |
Consideration of the needs of disabled people who face multiple exclusions | Measures taken to protect disabled people who are in increased risk of social exclusion and poverty, such as women, children, homeless people and prisoners. |
Inclusion to decision making process | Inclusion of disabled people and their representative organisations to advisory and decision-making bodies. |