title: Participation and service access rights for people with intellectual disability: a role for law?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Supported decision-making and personal budgets for services are the new paradigms.
  
  
  METHODS
  Supported decision-making proposals from the Australian State of Victoria are analysed against international trends to determine the viability of laws reflecting new international norms of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006 (CRPD).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The article concludes that it is desirable to pursue supported decision-making and allied legal reforms, but the contribution of the law is small and the new supported decision-making paradigms have similarities to old paternalist guardianship, as well as possible unintended consequences. It is suggested that realising the equality, support, protection, and socioeconomic service aspirations of the CRPD raise important practical challenges for governments, for service providers, for families, and-centrally-for people with intellectual disability (ID).This article examines the limited contribution law can make to this enterprise.
authors.affiliation: University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. terry.carney@sydney.edu.au
authors.forename: Terry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Carney
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003657:Decision Making; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006806:Human Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D038622:Internationality; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology; D019989:Persons with Intellectual Disabilities / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D014480:United Nations