the fight for our disability children never ends starting at school and for the rest of their lives- accountability needed by soldiers and bringing in cameras...we need the same accountability by disability providers - not all are good ...
The nasty incident at Penshurst public school(ABC news Josh Bavas November 27th 2020) this week highlights how our disability children young and adult are treated badly because they are so vulnerable and cannot always speak up...as for the children so for disability young adults and adults when they grow up it never ends...
A little boy locked in a room at his school by a dastardly teacher, his mother found out and approached the Principal about it who then banned her fromthe school! Even sending police to her house to deliver the letter saying so! What?! How can this be that a mother is treated like this when the school should not be locking any child in a room especially not a child with a disabiity or autism in this case? What gives a school the right to do that...?
the mother only found out because she saw a picture of the door with the lock on facebook after the school then denied they locked the door. oh they the school lied? well what a surprise... again seeing it on camera happened for finding out the truth...
At least the principal of the School has been stepped down...but why do it in the first place? Schools get paid extra for having a special unit or class in their schools they should be giving those kids extra care...alas we see once again the mistreatment of an innocent one with a disability who cannot defend himself and when his mother defends him she is put in trouble? Is this a democracy and free country or not? Australian education proclaim to care about our children and families yet the schools do this.
Again another door lock incident is the death of young Merna in care at Afford Disabilities in 2019 her mother said the door was locked in the bathroom where Merna was left unsupervised after they were specifically told to supervise the 20 year old Autistic girl in baths and showers, who was prone to epileptic fits...why did they lock the door and why are they not in trouble? Apparently these restrictive practices not allowed in disabilties. Why are the providers always let off the hook? an Nothing has been done about this and this is wrong...there should be prosecution at the least and a banning of that provider Afford Disabilties...whether they are a business or not they are meant to do their job of caring...all the providers certainly go for the money they can get from our vulnerable children's disabilities making families need the help. Yet this remains unaddressed. Where is the accountability by the provider?
Again no cameras to show that the workers had walked away from the bathroom, but the death of this young girl should have been enough for prosecution of some sort...after a year now!
As Andrew Hastie MP recently wrote regarding th Australian forces in a general email I received (28th November 2020) human nature has a bad side that needs to have accountability to protect others from it. He was talking about men who are trained to have good character under pressure still doing bad things because of their toxi mindset and thnking they could get away with it. Actually trained in their career for years.
He was talking about the same men, Australian soldiers who have allegedly murdered civilians in afganistan and are now being investigated and whistleblown on. A toxic culture among some of those special forces SAS officers leading to this. Hastie notes we need accountability or people get away with horrific wrongs.
There has been talk of soldiers wearing cameras on themselves from now on. Just like the police it will show what really went on.
These soldiers so highly trained still do wrong under pressure or orders, how much more workers in disabilities who have very little or no training and have not been taught anything about the complexities of disability disorders - how much more are they prone to doing the wrong thing under stress or not even know what the right thing is to do with this lack of training?
This shows the glaring need for cameras in disabilities because the nasty evil side of human nature can appear in these caring industries and a toxic bullying by managers to workers, or there are things done against the vulnerable simply because workers cannot take the stress, are not trained and dont know what to do, are casuals who dont care and only want the money,the staff are kept low creating more stress and or workers have mental conditions or moods that make them a threat to our even adult children the lambs we leave in their care. Meanwhile the CEOs and Managers in disability providers greedily count the dollars not caring what is happening in their houses of accommodation. They are no different to supermarket managers.
The cameras are needed in disabilities to keep this bad side of human nature in check that could be there. At present provider carers and their bosses know they can get away with anything they do to our children because of the very fact our children have a disability or are non verbal or cannot defend themselves. So when any incident happens they lie lie through their teeth and deliver their stories with a smile.
That smile needs wiping off their faces with prosecutions and fines when they do the wrong things to our innocents in their care.
Some parents of disability kids say in judgement on highly stressed parents, I would never leave my son or daughter in respite or care as if they are a better person...perhaps they have never needed to leave them in care, perhaps they have never been sick or needed someone to look after their child for them, or their perfect child is not noisy or demanding or hyperactive...and you have plenty of support but remember none of us live forever and what then?
Our system needs to be changed and good and bad things do happen to good people, it is a misconception and wrong thinking made out of fear that bad things only happen to bad people which the human mind makes up to protect self from the idea something could happen to them. WE need to protect all the disabilities adult children from attacks because one day that could be your adult child.
Many parents live a cycle 24/7 of care and stress which if we do not have a break from will make us fall apart. As for our children's futures we must rise and fight together for their human need for protection to be upheld so that when we are not here they will be protected - all of them not just one or two lucky ones.
Cameras in places of care are part of this accountability by providers, and the regular checks which should be physically made, not just by phone or internet.
How can we keep that bad side in check? Apparently the NDIS has power to ban, stand down and punish providers yet they have barely done anything out of the 8000 serious incidents of harm in Australia. There were 22 workers stood down and yet for serious crimes there has been no more than one prosecutions and one fine...yet as in Merna's case no prosecution at all when manslaughter should be an obvious charge against Afford's workers who left her in the bath. My son was injured and the police said that with no cameras I had no case for the provider's prosecution. WE need to change the laws and make them stronger against providers who hurt the vulnerable.
If we do not reform and change this disability system our children will continue a future of truama and uncertain at the hands of others especially when we the parents have gone. WE must help each other to protect our children and their futures.
STand together. It is not an individual game that saves the day it is the working together that will bring change and help our sons and daughters futures we must have their back we must change things.
WE have to fight for them their whole lives and we must not take what happens to them in silence because then darkness and oppression wins. WE must rise... stand with me and together we can bring the change...Sydney town hall 12pm 3rd December 2020 12pm onwards and at Hyde park.
all the best
Anndrea x         https://www.change.org/p/the-federal-government-new-protection-laws-needed-for-vulnerable-persons-with-disabilities-over-18-years-old/psf/share