Calls for Royal Commission into Abuse of People with Disability

By convenor |

Autism Aspergers Advocacy Australia (A4) supports AFDO and others in the disability sector ...

Media Release

The Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) today joined calls from across the disability sector for a Royal Commission into the violence, abuse and neglect experienced by Australians with disability.

Fighting the System

By bobb |

By Linton Besser, Klaus Toft, Jeanavive McGregor at ABC Four Corners

"I brought him into this world, and I love him. I do all I can to help him. I'm 88 soon. I'm still battling." Jean, mother

On Monday night Four Corners exposes what happens behind closed doors in some taxpayer funded group homes for the disabled and talks to the mothers and carers taking on the system.

"It's about time for me to tell this." Maria, mother

People with intellectual disabilities locked away under cloak of suburbia

By bobb |

A hundred years ago people with an intellectual disability were locked up in "lunatic asylums". Today they're still locked away, but it's just behind the walls of suburbia.

This is a story I'm trying to write without being able to give you specific details. It includes allegations of sexual abuse, physical assault and degradation, so people have asked for identities to be protected.

Follow-up with NDIA on Early Intervention (cont.)

By convenor |

Dear Mr Buckley,

Please find attached correspondence from William Garton.  Feel free to contact me if you have any questions in regards to this correspondence.

Kind Regards

Executive Assistant to William Garton,

General Manager – Access and Operations Management,

Participants and Planning

National Disability Insurance Agency

Mr Bob Buckley

Convenor

Autism Aspergers Advocacy Australia (A4)

Dear Mr Buckley,

Thank you for your correspondence dated 2 February 2017.

National Disability Insurance Scheme rollout plagued with problems, FOI documents reveal

By bobb |

Dan Conifer and FOI editor Michael McKinnon

VIDEO: Joshua Adam says his experience with the NDIS has been terrible (ABC News)

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) stopped processing thousands of applications from service providers, critical staff were untrained and properties were not ready when the scheme's nationwide rollout began, documents have revealed.

Inquiry into the provision of services under the NDIS for people with psychosocial disabilities related to a mental health condition

By bobb |

A4's submission

A4 made a submission to the inquiry by the Joint Standing Committee on the NDIS into the provision of services under the NDIS for people with psychosocial disabilities related to a mental health condition. 

Residents bearing the brunt of disability care in their street

By bobb |

 

IAN KIRKWOOD

A DISPUTE has broken out between a group of Boolaroo householders and a disability organisation over the care of a severely disabled girl with autism whose night-time screaming and other behavioural issues led the residents to go public with their concerns.

The organisation, Allambi Care, has confirmed the 13-year-old had arrived at Boolaroo after complaints from neighbours at her previous address in Belmont.

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