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Concern millions of Australians with disability not on the NDIS have been ‘forgotten’

Elizabeth Wright,Celina Edmonds and Evan Young
ABC News
Wednesday 18th May, 2022
"No one is talking about the [more than] 85 per cent of people with disabilities who aren't on the NDIS and many of those people are struggling to get the
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Young men abused by disability worker

7 News
Tuesday 17th May, 2022
The family of a young disabled man abused by a carer has never received an apology or compensation from the service provider, a royal commission has been told.
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The devaluation of Disabled lives

Georgia Cranko
The Saturday Paper
Saturday 2nd April, 2022

Ann Marie Smith died in abject circumstances, at the hands of her carer in the middle-class Adelaide suburb of Kingston Park. Her killing raises questions about the way our society…

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Hundreds of younger people with disability still living in nursing homes as deadlines approach

Disability Support Gide
Thursday 10th February, 2022
A newly released report shows the Government is still short of its target to have no one younger than 45 living in nursing homes, and no one younger than 65
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State seizes control of supported care homes over abuse, ‘uninhabitable conditions’

Jewel Topsfield
Brisbane Times
Thursday 13th January, 2022
The Victorian government has seized control of two supported care homes in Melbourne’s outer north-west after an investigation revealed coercion and abuse of residents, uninhabitable living conditions, forgery of signatures
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People with disabilities are being left to sleep in their wheelchairs because support workers don’t have access to PPE and RATs

John Buckley
Business Insider
Friday 14th January, 2022
Under these current policy settings, experts say, Australians with disabilities are being left to fend for themselves, as workers with little to no workplace protection fall out of the workforce
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NDIS provider apologises to group home residents after allegations of violence and neglect

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Wednesday 15th December, 2021
One of Australia’s largest national disability insurance scheme providers has apologised to the residents of two troubled group homes after allegations of violence, abuse and neglect were aired at an
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Disability royal commission: woman with disability sexually assaulted in park after men banned from visiting her accommodation

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Tuesday 7th December, 2021
A woman with cerebral palsy was sexually assaulted in a public park after her disability accommodation provider refused to let her meet her date in her own home, the disability
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What’s going on with restrictive practices?

Therese Morgante
DSC
Monday 15th November, 2021
Of the 1,044,851 reportable incidents lodged by NDIS providers in 2020–2021, a whopping 98.7%, (or 1,032,064) concerned the use of URPs. (Unauthorised Restrictive Practice) That is a staggeringly high number
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Occasional Paper No. 3: Learning from reviews of Victorian disability service provision to people who have died 2017 to 2021 – A reflection for future safeguarding.

Disability services Commissioner
Monday 11th October, 2021
This report provides an overview of the lessons learnt from more than three years of reviewing disability service provision to people who have died. Sadly, the majority of deaths reviewed
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You say Risk, I say Freedom

Todd Winther
Monday 11th October, 2021
I have had the opportunity to access a wide variety of services during my life. The quality that differentiates the best from the rest is the provider’s ability to empower
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Increased COVID support for NDIS workers in Victoria

AAP
Mirage News
Monday 4th October, 2021
Eligible NDIS providers in Victoria will be able to claim a one-off payment from the NDIA to cover costs for support workers to receive their COVID-19 vaccination.
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