Everyday Harm Experienced by People With Disability From Culturally Diverse Backgrounds Using Community Services in High‐Income Countries: A Scoping Review

People with disability from culturally diverse backgrounds face challenges accessing community services. These negative experiences contribute to everyday harm, a common but less noticeable form of harm that negatively impacts a person's wellbeing and social connections. Despite its impact, the concept of everyday harm is underexplored for this community in service settings. A scoping review was conducted through a systematic search across four databases of Eric/ProQuest, CINAHL, Scopus and Taylor & Francis. Eighteen articles were identified and thematically analysed. Findings revealed that everyday harm is often experienced by people from culturally diverse communities and overlooked by service providers. Three major themes were identified: (1) experiences of everyday harm, (2) responses to it and (3) practices of services to prevent or address everyday harm. Everyday harm experiences are shaped by historic systemic inequality, neglect of cultural responsiveness in services and capacity and awareness of service providers. People experience everyday harm to the combination of the intersecting parts of their identities. The findings imply the need for culturally responsive policy change, rights‐based service reform and inclusive empirical research to better understand the steps to prevent or address everyday harm in service settings.