DPSC Stream 2 — CCB Consortium (DAS lead)

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The Inclusion Engine: a multi-state accessible communications and inclusive practice capability service for community organisations — AI-assisted, co-designed and quality-assured by paid reviewers with disability, prioritising remote Australia

A consortium of disability advocacy orgs, led from remote NT, gives community organisations the tools and skills to make their own information and everyday practice accessible — AI-assisted Easy Read + plain-language production with mandatory QA by paid reviewers with disability — so inclusion capability ends up in-house, not in a consultant's invoice.

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The Inclusion Engine is a capability service that helps community organisations make their own information and everyday practice accessible and disability inclusive. Led by DAS from remote NT with advocacy-sector partners across jurisdictions, it has three parts. An Accessible Communications Studio guides organisations to convert their program information, forms and event materials into Easy Read and plain language, with AI-assisted drafting and every output approved by paid Lived Experience Reviewers with disability before release. An Inclusive Practice Review takes an organisation through structured self-assessment of its events, volunteer practice and service design against inclusion good practice, producing a tailored action plan. Partner-delivered Inclusion Sprints then take cohorts of organisations in each jurisdiction through implementation over ten weeks. Capability transfers in-house. Remote, regional and First Nations community organisations are prioritised.

Activities

1. Accessible Communications Studio: AI-assisted Easy Read / plain-language conversion with mandatory paid Lived Experience Reviewer QA (reviewers hold veto)
2. Inclusive Practice Review: structured self-assessment → tailored action plan
3. Partner-run 10-week Inclusion Sprints per jurisdiction (~250-300 orgs over 3yrs)
4. Remote/regional/First Nations orgs prioritised throughout

Eligibility self-check

• Capability uplift beyond compliance floor — 'legal minimum is yours, not funded' split baked in
• Targets the long tail of community orgs — ADN's Access & Inclusion Index serves big employers/government; nothing serves sporting clubs / neighbourhood centres / remote NGOs
• ~60% of funds flow to partners/panels/subcontracts
• Scalable down to ~$700k/yr if assessors trim

• Inclusion NT (warm — Liz keen)
• Darwin Community Legal Service (warm)
• IADA (warm)
• SACID (candidate — needs repair conversation first)
• +1 DANA-member state org (TBC)

REFUTERS (11 Jun): novelty verdict DUPLICATIVE AS DRAFTED — fix specified and applied to pitch framing. Eligibility cleanest of the six (conditional: drop 'Partner E TBC' or lock in writing). See dossier §3.