AAT: Administrative Appeals Tribunal

ADD: Ageing and Disability Department

ADJR Act: Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977 (Cth)

ADR: alternative dispute resolution

ADT Act: Administrative Decisions Tribunal Act 1997 (NSW)

ADT: Administrative Decisions Tribunal

Better Decisions Report: Australia, Administrative Review Council, Better Decisions: Review of Commonwealth Merits Review Tribunals (Report No 39, 1995)

CAMA: Community Services (Complaints, Appeals and Monitoring Act) 1993 (NSW)

CAMA Reg: Community Services (Complaints, Appeals and Monitoring) Regulation 1996 (NSW)

CAMA Working Party Report: New South Wales, DOCS, Report of the Working Party on Appeals and Complaints Mechanisms for Community Services in NSW, August 1992 (1992)

CID: New South Wales Council for Intellectual Disability

Commission: Law Reform Commission

Commissioner: Community Services Commissioner

CS Division: Community Services Division (of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal)

CSAT: Community Services Appeals Tribunal

CSC: Community Services Commission

CWAC: Community Welfare Advisory Committee

DisQAC: Disability Services Quality Assurance Council

DOCS: Department of Community Services

DSA: Disability Services Act 1993 (NSW)

EAC: Expert Advisory Committee

HACC: Home and Community Care

HCCC: Health Care Complaints Commission

IP 15: New South Wales Law Reform Commission, Review of the Community Services (Complaints, Appeals and Monitoring) Act 1993 (NSW) (Issues Paper 15, 1998)

IP 16: New South Wales Law Reform Commission, Review of the Disability Services Act 1993 (NSW) (Issues Paper 16, 1998)

NCOSS: New South Wales Council of Social Service

New York Commission: New York Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled

PJC: Parliamentary Joint Committee

PWD: People With Disabilities (NSW) Inc

Report 91: New South Wales Law Reform Commission, Review of the Disability Services Act 1993 (NSW) (Report 91, 1999)

Review Council: Community Services Review Council

RR 9: New South Wales Law Reform Commission, Review of the Disability Services Act 1993 (NSW) and the Community Services (Complaints, Appeals and Monitoring) Act 1993 (NSW): Consultations (Research Report 9, 1999)

SAAP: Supported Accommodation and Assistance Program

SNYPIC: NSW State Network of Young People in Care

Tribunal: Administrative Decisions Tribunal