- • priorities for action and incrementally removing barriers to inclusion. • priorities for action and incrementally removing barriers to inclusion.
- • policies and procedures to reflect disability inclusion. • policies and procedures to reflect disability inclusion.
- • small changes which will achieve large impact. • small changes which will achieve large impact.
- • momentum and reinforcing the message. • momentum and reinforcing the message.
- • modelling inclusion. • modelling inclusion.
- • disability inclusion in to expectations of organisational performance. • disability inclusion in to expectations of organisational performance.
- • inclusion through internal events and activities. • inclusion through internal events and activities.
- • progress to guide future action (adapted from VicHealth 2018). • progress to guide future action (adapted from VicHealth 2018).

The auditing toolkit has been designed to enable reflection on women's health services capacity to create an environment in which disability inclusive PVAW initiatives can occur, as well as identifying existing barriers to inclusion and planning for their removal. In tandem with the needs analysis tools, the auditing tools can assi st women's healt h services to research existing inclusion activities and systems, guide policy development, future planning and evaluation. In undertaking the audit, w omen's health services can not only increase the inclusivity of their own organisational practices but also role model inclusion for regional partners with whom they work.

#### Audit Scope

The auditing tool includes material covering an organisation ' s interactions with staff, partners and the community through events, communications and its role as employer and agent of change, and on the accessibility of an organisation ' s physical infrastructure and event spaces. The audit structure reflects a staged approach to the transformation necessary for the creation of truly inclusive cultures, practices and environments, with shifts in organisational operations and communications requiring less financial outlay than changes to physical infrastructure, and thus likely to receive greater organisational support in the short to medium term. Furthermore, the suggestions and resources offered throughout the text invite the examination by women's health service s staff of aspects of inclusion through a gender lens, assisting organisations to determine priorities for change and implement short-term changes while devising strategies for longer-term transformation. The auditing tools present a series of questions on themes of physical access, events, communications, personnel practices and attitudes towards disability. The responses of users of these tools can be used to assess each women's health services' current disability inclusion capacity, strengths and needs, and guide the design of requests for tailored technical assistance and resource provision from WDV if requested in the future. Disability inclusion is multi-faceted, covering a wide scope of physical infrastructure, organisational processes and systems. It is suggested that rather than tackling the audit in its entirety, women's health services review the topics covered in the auditing tool, and identify areas which they wish to address as part of a staged process of accessibility review, planning and change. This will ensure manageable and realistic action over time. The tool's checklist format allows for multiple forms of utilisation by WHS and other organisations. The audit can be undertaken as an individual written exercise, or via a workshop format. Questions within the toolkit can also be used as guides to organisational discussion, planning and evaluation of disability inclusion. By responding to the questions within the toolkit, WHS staff can generate an overview of the current state of inclusiveness of their organisation or events in a range of criteria, including physical access and inclusive attitudes and practices. The tool can be used to produce base-line data and to monitor and plan progress towards inclusivity over time, in recognition of the long term nature of much disability inclusion and PVAW work.

Women's Health Services Disability Audit Tool

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