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Statement on mandating vaccination among residential disability support workers

Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC)
Friday 9th July, 2021
Many people with disability have a higher risk of developing severe illnesses from COVID-19. Ensuring high vaccination rates among residential disability workers will help protect people with disability. In light
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Securing Their Future: Planning for the future when you care for a person with disability

Office of the Public Advocate
Monday 21st June, 2021
This guide has been created to help you put in place some safeguards to ensure the person with disability you care for is properly provided for, if something were to
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Regulated restrictive practices with children and young people with disability: Practice guide

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
Thursday 15th April, 2021

This guide and the associated decision trees focus on the use of regulated restrictive practices (RRP) with children and young people aged under 18 years who are participants of the…

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Regulated Restrictive Practice

DARU
Wednesday 3rd March, 2021
The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission released the Regulated Restrictive Practices Guide in November 2020 that supports a contemporary positive behaviour support framework and explains what a restrictive practice is.
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Behaviour support practitioners suitability assessments

Therese Morgante
Disability Services Consulting (DSC)
Monday 15th February, 2021
In December 2020, the NDIS Commission (the Commission) released some much welcome details on the national implementation of behaviour practitioner suitability assessments, which have helped paint a picture of how
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Community Visitors Annual Report 2020-21

Office of the Public Advocate
Thursday 18th November, 2021
Community Visitors are volunteers who play a vital role in safeguarding the rights of people with disability and fostering their inclusion in the community. This is an annual report that
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NDIS Workforce Interim Report

Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Parliament of Australia
Wednesday 9th December, 2020
This is an interim report which makes 14 recommendations to address key issues facing the NDIS workforce. The committee will continue to consider these issues next year and intends to
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Much Needed Clarity from the Commission

Therese Morgante
Disability Service Consulting (DSC)
Monday 7th December, 2020
The NDIS Quality & Safeguards Commission (NDIS Commission) recently released the Regulated Restrictive Practices Guide V1 – October 2020 (RP Guide). This is a welcome document from the NDIS Commission
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Choice and control, advocacy and relationships – keys to addressing abuse and neglect

Dr George Taleporos
Every Australian Counts
Thursday 5th November, 2020
Social connectedness and the ability to speak up for oneself is the most important safeguard against abuse and neglect. It is tragic that it has taken with the death of
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Victorian Disability Worker Registration Scheme

DARU
Tuesday 13th October, 2020
The Victorian Disability Worker Commission forms part of the Victorian Government’s “zero tolerance” approach to abuse of people with disability. It opened for business, launched on 1 July 2020. The
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‘Sleepy’ disability watchdog under fire amid accounts of abuse

Dana McCauley
SMH
Tuesday 13th October, 2020
A disability advocate has detailed harrowing stories of abuse against some of Australia's most vulnerable people – from physical assaults to being put in cages – by those paid by
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Disability care watchdog has issued just one fine despite 8000 complaints

Rob Harris
SMH
Thursday 17th September, 2020
The scandal-plagued disability sector will get $22 billion from the federal government this financial year, but an independent review found the system left vulnerable people open to harm and neglect.
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