After I sent three lots of photos of my son’s bruises to accounts section of the disabilities day program, the CEO asked me not to send the pictures of my son’s bruises to accounts anymore. Who should I send them to then? I was only answering their request to pay for some outstanding transport, with pictures of my sons arm with bruises on it saying ‘pay for this!” I want compensation for his injury and his trauma, since he came home from their program with the bruises in the first place. Let the accounts see it. Let the administration see it and most of all let the public see it. Accounts must not have liked the pictures, I guess. They didn’t want to know what happens to disabilities kids in their care. I gave them a reality check. They just want the money for not really caring about our young vulnerable at all.
Did the CEO not want accounts to know what happened to my son? Why is that? Are they afraid of being found out? Do they not want to appear guilty? Let the whole corporation know all their workers and admin I will shout it from the rooftops if I have to – because what happens in secret will come out eventually or it may never so we need to let the world know what is happening in disabilities! Why should they get away with covering up incidents of harm in their care? Unexplained bruises, unexplained deaths. They have a lot of explaining to do if not now then in court. In prison if necessary because the deviant individuals who work in disabilities only care about themselves and the money they make out of our children. Parents need to stand up. If your child has been bullied, injured even killed in disabilities then the story must be told to giving our non verbal and intellectually delayed a voice – and a call for justice and protection.
By law the disability providers are meant to report, tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth of any incidents that happen in their care. So to avoid that they say that it did not happen.
They don’t like being transparent the disability providers – but they owe it to parents whose funds for their children from NDIS to be transparent and to tell the truth about what happens in their programs, care, facilities and respite! The government owes it to parents of disability children, teens and
I don’t think my son liked getting the bruises at their day program. The worst part of all this is the coverup and the fact they, the providers think they can get away with it and invariably do. What transparency?- they make their workers shut up I have been informed by others and they themselves lie, lie, and lie.
WE the parents need to know what is going on, and they the providers should be made accountable for what they do to our children. How do we catch them though? They feign to be honest but are not.
New Zealand fares no better in being transparent I their care of those with disabilities as reported in a recent article by Thomas Manch of Stuff NZ June 30th 2021 “Children’s minister order investigation into restraint of children at care facilities after whistleblower It showsvideo” The whistleblower video showed youth workers using excessive force on a teenager. The video published by Newsroom appeared to show three staff members at an Oranga Tamariki care and protection facility (care and protection! How ironic) twice tackling a boy aged 13 years old to the ground, once while he was restrained in a secure room. Another video showed a teenager who was angry and punched a computer screen being put in a headlock and thrown to the ground.
Love the care being shown to these kids - what care? The workers were violent in their response and should be put in prison themselves and restrained.
Kelvin Davis the Children’s minister for New Zealand said the video showed ‘totally unacceptable’ conduct by the staff. Lucky there was a video or it would never be known and would have been hidden like most behavior by bad staff in disabilities or care is.
Davis has asked the care agency for a review into its four care facilities to ‘get to the bottom of things’.
Will they though? If they investigate themselves. An organization that investigates itself invariably never tells the whole truth to protect themselves it could be a waste of time. Yet they are accountable always for how they treat the vulnerable and if they cant handle behaviours in special kids they should not be there. They should certainly not be tackling, restraining and hurting them as part of that ‘care’.
I hope they do get to ‘the bottom of things’ in NZ with that care organization, for the sake of the kids there, and I wish the NDIS Quality commission would get to ‘the bottom of things’ here in Australia because they never do! They leave it to the providers to be honest. What a joke. They seem to believe the provider of the participant. Good Lordy they themselves are not tranparent.
They were lucky to get that video of the bad treatment by the staff to the kids in their facility but why should we rely on luck? We need cctv cameras here in disabilities places of care mandatory to all facilities and programs. Our children remain without protection and parents live in fear of what will happen to their children in care, or adult children when parents are getting older. We must not allow harm to continue, we must not allow violence to be hidden and carried out by providers who know they can get away with it!
Why is Afford disabilities still allowed to operate after letting a girl drown in their care ? Is it because there is no video footage proving what happened that awful day? They have not been transparent at all with regards to the death of Merna in face hiding what has happened so that the ABC news had to do the investigation or it would still be hidden that the worker had left her in the bath by herself….after her mother had instructed the organization to always supervise her daughter in the bath….apparently the instructions did not turn up on the computer – Merna’s profile. How could they be so negligent and get away with it? This government and the NDIS have a lot to answer for I their complete lack of transparency and regard for those in disabilities. Why do they not want to make cameras mandatory? Would they been too transparent then? Too truthful.
I bought a lipstick at a chemist recently as well as some house cleaning products they sell too. Getting home I couldn’t find the lipstick and next day still couldn’t. So went back to the shop and said did I leave it here? Maybe it didn’t get packed. WE will talk to the manager they said. After a long wait I though well its not that important just leave it but the manager came over and said we checked the camera footage and the counter assistance packed it in the bag. I was so surprised as I only want to see it if Left it behind but they must have been worried I would blame the assistant (which was not my intention) so they checked the CCTV footage. Thanks I said I will have a look at home in case I dropped it out of the bag. I couldn’t believe they went to so much trouble over a lipstick even checking cameras from two days ago. Yet in disabilities they do not consider what happens to our children important enough to have cameras to check the truth of an incident of harm or injury. Fair go, lipstick and beauty products get more accountability and care than our children. The manager was respectful to me, no insults no intimidation or threats, not like the disability places where my son was hurt.
The government needs to step up and care for those in disabilities and force NDIS tomake cameras mandatory they are denying our children freedom any kind of protection from workers who are not looking after them properly, may be violent with the vulnerable, may not be trained enough so that they are negligent or not adhering to instructions on different disability person’s needs. Our children are at the mercy of providers who more often then not are showing them no mercy. But we will never know because without cameras the truth cannot come out. Our children remain unprotected and the providers walk away smugly with the funds laughing. This must change. Push for the cameras we need them so badly for our children’s protection and we need to make providers accountable for what happens to the vulnerable in their facilities and care, they should not be able to walk away scott free when our children are assaulted or hurt by them, mistreated, bruised or abused. NO way. We must see reform in disabilities so that they are treated with respect and regard and the parents should be treated the same.
all the best
Anndrea X
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