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Report points to flaws in disability care

AAP
Nine News
Tuesday 16th June, 2020
Gaps exist in the system to protect disabled people under government care, with a dozen issues identified by a South Australian task force examining the case of an Adelaide woman
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Unsafe carers face bans from entering NDIS

Finbar O'Mallon
Canbrra Times
Monday 8th June, 2020
NDIS Minister Stuart Robert is planning to introduce the proposed powers to federal parliament within the next two weeks. The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission would be able to draw
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Disability support services: services provided under the National Disability Agreement 2018–19

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Friday 22nd May, 2020
In 2018–19, about 230,000 people used disability support services funded under the National Disability Agreement (NDA). Of these, 68% used the Australian Government’s open employment services. During the year, about
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Disability Service Safeguards – Code of Conduct

Victorian Disability Workers Commission
Sate of Victoria
Friday 5th June, 2020

The Code sets out the obligations that all Victorian disability workers must abide by and provides a standard to protect people with disability from harm and abuse. The Code is…

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‘We need an agency with real teeth’: disability sector calls for reform following David Harris’ death 

Amber Schultz
Crikey
Monday 25th May, 2020
Harris’ sister Leanne Longfellow told Inq she couldn’t believe there had been no protocols breached in the lead-up to Harris’ death. His body wasn’t discovered until around two months after
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Ann Marie Smith’s carer wasn’t screened by Integrity Care

Rhett Burnie
ABC PM
Monday 25th May, 2020
More details have emerged from a number of investigations into the death of Adelaide woman, Ann Marie Smith, who police say died as a result of shocking neglect last month.
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Disability advocates, authorities demand answers on shocking death of disabled woman Ann-Marie Smith

Rhett Burnie
ABC PM
Monday 18th May, 2020
Disability advocates say the death of an Adelaide woman with cerebral palsy is proof the system is failing the most vulnerable. Ann Marie Smith was meant to receive around the
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Ann Marie Smith death prompts demand for answers from federal and state authorities

Camron Slessor
ABC Radio Adelaide
Tuesday 19th May, 2020
The Federal Government says it "wants answers" on the death of disability care recipient Ann Marie Smith in what police described as "degrading circumstances", as pressure mounts on federal and
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The tragic death of Ann-Marie Smith has shocked us all

Ben Gauntlett, Commonwealth Disability Discrimination Commissioner
Linked-in
The essence of human rights is the right of everyone to live a dignified life. A life with shelter, food, access to health care, safety, inclusion in the community and
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NDIS investigating Ann Marie Smith’s death as Anglicare confirms carer was subcontracted

ABC `News
Tuesday 19th May, 2020
She died on April 6 from severe septic shock, multi-organ failure, severe pressure sores, malnutrition and issues connected with her cerebral palsy after being stuck in a cane chair for
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Australian Disability Intermediaries Sector Report

Disability Intermediaries Australia
Thursday 30th April, 2020
This inaugural flagship report for the Intermediaries Sector exposes challenges within the operating and policy environment and features the results from the inaugural Intermediary Sector Survey which 461 intermediary service
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Adelaide woman’s ‘degrading’ death shows community’s ‘devaluation’ of people with disabilities

Eugene Boisvert
ABC News
Saturday 16th May, 2020
The case of an Adelaide woman who died after being left by carers in a cane chair 24-hours-a-day for a year shows the community still does not value people with
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