Designing the CDDA Learning Collection CD/001
Project Announcement
In our ongoing work with WorkAccord Learning, we have embarked on a new project: developing a comprehensive learning library around the Australian Government’s Scheme for Compensation for Detriment caused by Defective Administration (CDDA).
The CDDA Scheme allows Non-Corporate Commonwealth Entities to compensate individuals who have experienced detriment due to defective administration—a space where law is often silent and discretion becomes the moral instrument of justice.
Our aim is to create a collection that helps users to understand how the Scheme works and how it can be accessed and enacted with integrity and care. We are designing this for a broad audience: advocates, operations specialists in areas such as Veterans and NDIS, and legal practitioners including counsel and ombudspersons. Each group brings different expertise, perspectives, and emotional readiness.
The Special Pedagogical Challenge is clear: enabling learners to move beyond procedural or adversarial habits into discretionary, relational, and morally imaginative engagement—while maintaining professional legitimacy and institutional trust.
Over the coming weeks, we will explore the Scheme’s principles, examine case examples, and introduce integrative mediation approaches that illustrate how discretionary justice can be enacted with courage, care, and relational insight.
We will report progress through our Field Notes. WorkAccord’s CDDA Learning Collection can be accessed as part of the Public Administration Library Collection through our free WorkAccord Learning Gateway Plan.