C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care

23.07. The design of the package of alternatives to detention anticipates the situation of people with disabilities, and ensures that locations of alternatives to detention are physically accessible.

C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care,23. People with disabilities

23.08. Detainees with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation that takes account of special vulnerabilities, including of women and children with disabilities.

C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care,23. People with disabilities

23.09. Interview and hearing rooms are accessible to people with disabilities and disability-specific interpreting assistance is provided for people who are visually or hearing impaired.

C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care,23. People with disabilities

23.10. Understandings of and training in relation to disability reflect a social model of disability.

C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care,23. People with disabilities

22.37. Where children are detained, they have access to services that actively facilitate their integration/reintegration into society, family life, education and employment, including support services that enable them to find adequate shelter, education, employment and means of support.

C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care,22. Children

23.01. There is a presumption against the detention of people with disabilities, and detention is used only as a last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time.

C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care,23. People with disabilities

23.02. There is an assessment of whether a child or adult who may be subject to immigration detention has disabilities and this is taken into account when evaluating the necessity, reasonableness and proportionality of detention.

C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care,23. People with disabilities

23.03. People with long-term physical, mental, intellectual and sensory impairments are not detained for immigration reasons, and the exceptional decision to detain a person with a disability is subject to an assessment of the necessity, reasonableness and proportionality of detaining the particular individual.

C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care,23. People with disabilities

23.04. The place of detention provides for safe and ready access to all parts of the facility by people with a disability, including visitors with a disability.

C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care,23. People with disabilities

23.05. The question of whether there are less coercive or intrusive alternatives to detention is actively explored and takes full account of individual circumstances and vulnerabilities.

C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care,23. People with disabilities