Supported decision-making and the Disability Royal CommissionFootnote

1 Accepted under the editorship of Dr Ilan Wiesel, Associate Editor, Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Full details of the mission and scope of the Disability Royal Commission (2019–2023) and a guide to finding its various types of documents are discussed in the Editorial for this Issue, available freely online at https://doi.org/10.1080/23297018.2024.2319365.

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