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Damning report into boarding houses for NDIS participants

The Hon Bill Shorten MP
Media release
Friday 19th May, 2023
Approximately 1,600 NDIS participants are amongst 4,000 people living in 115 SRS’ across Victoria. The interim report to be released today - which was triggered by whistle-blowers and commissioned by
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Non-verbal young boy in state care can’t access $27,000 of his NDIS funding, grandmother says By

Katri Uibu
ABC
Thursday 23rd March, 2023
"It is criminal. It is so abusive. If you are going to remove a child from care, particularly a child with a disability, you have an ethical responsibility to ensure
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Own Motion Inquiry into aspects of supported accommodation report

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
This first Inquiry focused on the experiences of NDIS participants living in supported accommodation. The Inquiry examined reportable incidents and complaints that have been made to the NDIS Commission in
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Independent disability advocacy: Submission to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability

DANA
Wednesday 21st December, 2022
The submission is informed by the collective knowledge and experience of independent disability advocacy member organisations. It explores the context, key barriers and challenges for the disability advocacy sector and
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Complaint mechanisms: Reporting pathways for violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation

University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne and the University of Technology Sydney.
Disability Royal Commission
Tuesday 15th November, 2022
The report found that a lot of violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation experienced by people with disability is related to being segregated or institutionalised, discrimination and negative attitudes. It said
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Connecting the dots: Understanding the DFV experiences of children and young people with disability within and across sectors

Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety
Wednesday 28th September, 2022
This report highlights implications for improving policy and practice across intersecting disability, child and violence domains. It begins to address one of the evidence gaps identified in the 2020 interim
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Line of sight: Refocussing Victoria’s adult safeguarding laws and practices

Victoria Office of the Public Advocate
Friday 19th August, 2022

This report draws on de-identified stories that starkly illustrate the impact of the system failures on adults who are at-risk. It identifies gaps and failures in the current framework and…

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And You Think You’re the Expert

WWILD Sexual Violence Prevention Association Inc.
Tuesday 16th August, 2022
This podcast series discusses intellectual disability, accessibility and violence and was created in collaboration with women with intellectual disability. Experts are interviewed about how they work with women with intellectual
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Changing the landscape: A national resource to prevent violence against women and girls with disabilities

Our Watch and Women with Disabilities Victoria
Wednesday 9th February, 2022
This resource names ableism and gender inequality as the two consistent, intersecting drivers of violence against women and girls with disabilities. It sets out the actions that must be taken
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Elder abuse and the NDIS webinar

Peninsula Health, Monash Health and La Trobe Community Health
Tuesday 28th September, 2021

This session was part of the Lunchtime Learnings webinar series, supporting service providers about how to support, and respond better to older people experiencing elder abuse. The sessions aim to…

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This Is My Story: Lisa Sansbury

Grampians Disability Advocacy
Monday 6th September, 2021

Indigneous woman Lisa Sansbury tells her story of trauma and abuse after being removed from her family at a young age. She tells her story in a painting to be…

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Rapid Evidence Review: Violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability

Disability Royal Commission
Tuesday 24th August, 2021
The report examines existing research to gain a better understanding of both risk and protective factors relating to why some members of society cause harm to people with disability. A
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