Stop the hidden abuse against our vulnerable children in programs, respite or accommodation....Where is their protection ? It is non existent.
What duty of care? They are not keeping it and they are not reporting it – where is the prevention of harm against our vulnerable? the Violence against our disability children/adult children by those in charge or care of them…
They talk about domestic violence prevention indeed Attorney General of NSW is the minister for prevention of domestic violence as well as the Attorney General of Queensland – ministers of prevention of domestic violence
Violence in the home – what about violence out of the home – violence against those who do not have the power to fight back or talk about it – violence and bullying of those disability children and adult children parents are trying to raise and look after…
Care providers and organisations pay lip service to it – they say they have policies against abuse or harm to the disability persons and children in their care and yet when it happens they say nothing they do not report it they do not care enough to be transparent…
Care of our children depends on the honesty and transparency of the providers and teachers, schools where our vulnerable ones go…
Yet as we know there is little transparency by many of the mainstream providers of care…
WE need to prevent and safeguard our children/adult children who cannot defend themselves who cannot speak, who are intellectually unable to report or state what happened to them – we need to protect these vulnerable ones from harm we need violence prevention to start to happen for our disability children and it needs to start now.
The violence needs to be stopped, reported and prosecuted.
I raised my children with nurture and love despite the eventual divorce I went through… and I wanted them to never see the violence I saw in my home directed at my mother and my brother or the kind of words I had to listen to as a child – I swore when I had a family I would give them the opposite of that I would given them a home of love and peace and nurturing that I never saw for myself or my brother I taught to care about each other not to hurt each other – those were our values.
Yet my sweet son goes somewhere for a day program with people I trusted to care for him and comes home with bruises we would never do to him we would never hurt him like that. To think the trouble we went to to care for him is thwarted and ignored by those we pay to give him social activities and a world outside is smashed by those who them blatantly will take their temper out their lack of patience or lack of love on our innocent ones we have tried so hard to look after is despicable and to add to that is the knowledge that they will get away with it every time.
Just like domestic abuse – the men would get away with it always unless the woman reported them or laid charges which she was too scare to do. Yet they brought in a law to protect women who could not stand up to their thug husbands so that it would automatically be against the law for a man to hit or abuse a woman. They have gone even further to address the control of a woman’s life and domination by a man who would also control her money or make her think she had something wrong with her and abuse her constantly so that she would lose confidence in her self.
We need the same laws for disabilities – it should be automatically against the law to harm a disability child or person in a providers care – regardless of being able to prove it .
However since we have to prove it we need the cameras to prove it. CCTV cameras are allowed in disabilities but it should be mandatory. The providers resist having them because they I suspect to not want any such abuse to be recorded or seen so that they could be sued – so the money is more important then the safety of the disability children especially intellectually disabled who cannot articulate or a non-verbal. Police do not even bother to follow up what happens to our children or take so long it might be forgotten by us they hope and did not even visit the day program to question them this time my son was hurt and generally when vulnerable disability adults or children are harmed. Police see little chance of prosecution with no camera evidence so they don't even try to investigate and make negligible effort.
Then we must make camera evidence. It is disgusting how those with disabilities have been left out in the cold with no prevention of violence to them. Simply making protocols by the NDIS to make providers do what is right by commission is pathetic at best, providers laugh inwardly they know they can get away with anything they do. They are wired for money making or actually caring about their participants…they are wired to not care. The managers down to the workers of the organizations who hurt my son are trained to make robotic statements of no abuse policy and they in the end are lying.
I did not go to all the trouble of raising my disability child with love and nurturing to have some manager and or workers come in and harm them with no regard for my child’s feelings or well being the providers need to be disciplined, suspended and prosecuted for their failed duty of care – or their abuse of our children they must not be allowed to get away with it. They have exploited the families that are desperate for help and socialization for their children and desperate for time to rest. They exploit take the money and then hurt our children with no regard. They should be in prison.
Our laws must be made stronger and we must have cameras to protect our vulnerable children and adult children…we must demand this as parents and we must not let providers get away with harming any of our children. Only cameras will provide the evidence.
Please send your letters demanding this to your Attorney General of your state in Australia, or in NSW Hon Mark Speakman MP and demand and make the changes we need for your children’s sakes - their protection from harm.Hon

Mark Speakman MP GPO Box 5341 Sydney NSW 2001 and email: Cronulla@parliament.nsw.gov.au   stating the urgent need for cameras to protect the vulnerable and non verbal, and add also what has happened to your disability child or adult if there has been an incident occurring to them in the past.

All the best
Anndrea x
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