Enabling Good Lives (EGL) principles

SAFEGUARDING FOUNDATIONS

EGL is a movement in Aotearoa New Zealand that promotes self-determination, mana, and inclusion for disabled people. It supports disabled people to have greater choice and control in their lives and access to the same opportunities as everyone else.

Through Enabling Good Lives, disabled people and their whanau can choose to increase the choice and control they have in their lives and supports.

Learn more: About enabling good lives New Zealand

As an example of ‘Enabling Good Lives in action in a safeguarding context,’ EGL principles support and enable ethical decision-making.