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.
This video (and the NZSL version) explains Enabling Good Lives, a social movement which is led by the community, for disabled people and families who want to change the system and live self-determined lives. EGL’s vision is that all disabled people and whānau will have more choice and control over their supports and lives.
Produced by Whaikaha, the Ministry of Disabled People, 2024.