Disability Leadership Canterbury COVID-19 experiences data project

Providing a disability perspective in decision making is one of the key functions of The EDLG Network.

Highlighting the early experiences of COVID-19 for people in Canterbury and how the challenges we all faced were magnified for disabled people is an important contribution we are able to make towards supporting an inclusive, ongoing COVID-19 crisis response for disabled people in Canterbury

This research and the resulting paper, highlight experiences reported by disabled people and their whānau in Canterbury. They document peoples’ experiences, and the main ways the emergency response ‘system’ (e.g. services, funding etc.) did or did not respond. We believe that these two perspectives understood together will provide a foundation for future improvements to emergency responses to ensure an inclusive and accessible response for our disability community.