A new Disability Rights Act recommended by the Royal Commission yes we need that as we do not have enough protections for those in!disabilities.
There is no true regulating of disability services in Australia. The failure to care for our special needs children by the NDIS and Australian government has been shown in the recent four corners investigation which exposed the bad practices of a disability therapy group called Irabina – using restraint and abusive practices for their ‘therapies’ was truly a sickening show of how disabilities vulnerable children and adults are being exploited by providers making use of the NDIS business type funding. How could they get away with this? These wolves hurt our vulnerable innocent lambs our children with disabilities and as well are paid for it!
https://www.abc.net.au/.../careless-how-the.../102899714
The investigation also reveals young people suffering extensive injuries whilst under the care of NDIS-approved providers.
The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission is supposed to protect people living with disability, but Careless exposes it's failing to monitor our most vulnerable.
There is not enough regulation by the NDIS to protect those who most need protecting. It does not even come into their policies. It is not a word used.
Where NDIS and the Australian government has completely failed is to keep our disability vulnerable children safe in any of the providers places or schools, while they are children and even as they become adults – the new NDIS does not monitor does not check does not care what happens to those in the system this new money making system called the NDIS.
Others have called it a rort, finance people I have talked to recognize the system as a rort. Noting that as the NDIS makes rates higher and higher so that the providers can charge higher and higher for the funds of the vulnerable whose parents have to fight for their funding in order to get it and then see the rates and charges made by group homes, respite and day programs increase and increase. This makes money for the government then, not just the providers. We see the criminal element increasing in disabilities services to a higher degree as providers can charge and make as much as they like out of unknowing extremely life reliant disability people and their parents also can be unaware because they trusted the provider and the system. Yet somehow, Bill Shorten and others – political leaders, seemingly are surprised, indignant but they are encouraging it with their own very system.
Essentially, the NDIS and government departments, have failed to keep our disability children safe, whether young or old in any disabilities care. On the Careless program on Four Corners, It was said over and over again by parents and by whistleblowers that they told the NDIS their concerns but they were not listened to. One nurse who went in with a group of nurses to save a man who had been lured into a residential home where he lived in filth and wanted to leave but could not, one nurse told the NDIS and the NDIS did nothing.
https://www.msn.com/.../four-corners.../ar-AA1hgvZd
Now the ABC news notes:’ Disability advocates say tighter regulation of NDIS service providers is needed after an ABC investigation uncovered "sickening" practices being used against children with disabilities.’ Stronger, tighter actual regulating would be could
The ABC's Four Corners revealed children with autism and intellectual disabilities were unlawfully pinned to the ground facedown by up to six workers as part of a controversial therapy funded by the NDIS.
From the investigation - the mother whose son was abused and repeatedly berated as a form of some kind of tortuous therapy ABA therapy – from an American model – why are we following America? They treat children like this in their schools, and sit on disability kids, lock them in rooms letting them be harmed and even die. Why would we in Australia want that for our children, why does this disability service follow them? In a word - for the money.
The ABA therapy I learned about in my psychology degrees was nothing like what we saw on the Four Corners investigation. It is meant to help the children not hurt them. Too much repetition is bad for Autistic kids and even Fragile x kids like my son as they tend to repetition already and need to break from it. It was noted in the Four Corners investigation that those running Abarina Centre –were the CEO was a businesswoman with no education or experience in disabilities and her daughter was running the program also with no background or education in disabilities. Business people. How sickening. A typical story as every man and his dog, and woman for that matter seems to be starting up disability ‘businesses’ just as was planned by the so called caring NDIS designers.
This is not choice for those with disabilities who often cannot make major decisions, this is money exploitation and should probably be brought to the attention of the United Nations since our government is failing big time to protect the vulnerable, the most vulnerable, the non verbal and intellectually delayed in disabilities.
The government is mandated to protect and help those with disabilities to thrive. Yet they turn away when our children are harmed. The NDIS helps cover up what is happening in disability providers services, they ignore when there is harm reported. They do not punish the providers. They are not accountable and the providers are not accountable, therefore the CEOs , the managers and the workers are not accountable for what happens to our children. They continue to fail to regulate the providers because they really don’t care what happens in these places. They do not regulate at all. Some in the NDIS like Tracy Mackay on the Four Corners interview who says yes we shut down Abarina, when questioned by a reporter was asked why they let the service continue another 8 months of those restraints and cruel therapies at that centre just said but we stopped it. She also made no straight answer when asked various questions on regulation oh well she said we let the participants choose where they live…these participants of course had been exploited for their funds but the NDIS would not intervene. They allowed the exploitation of those abducted in some cases to other residential homes and could not get out. Those who run the NDIS deny, deny, deny and allow the wolves to come in now and then making a show of trying to stop the wolves making money illegally. They do not however stop the wolves abusing and neglect of those who cannot defend themselves..
The justice system also ignores when our children are harmed and adult children attacked or assaulted by those we trusted to look after them. WE don’t want to believe it has happened to our child but then we no longer can ignore it ourselves. Why should our children be expected to live their lives in fear what kind of slavery is this? The NDIS talks about giving those with disabilities choice but they give them no choice but to put up with abuse wherever they go. Time and time again I read of assaults and sexual assaults made on those with disabilities even in the royal commission investigations they noted a worker make a sexual assault and was charged but found not guilty, they are always found not guilty.
Another young girl was being hurt in a group home by a disability person who bit her, she also had her front teeth knocked out. A worker told the manager who said just send her to day program! The worker told the NDIS who did nothing, said nothing. She called the mother as the manager refused to send for an ambulance and the girl’s mother took her to hospital and never sent her back to that group home – Life solutions one of the biggest disability providers operating. They have not be shut down they have not been fined or penalized they have been allowed to keep operating. The NDIS regulating is non existent. Bill shorten when questioned about Tracey Mackay the regulator not doing any regulating he said it is not any one person. Actually it is all about any one person who is not doing the right thing because the NDIS including Bill Shorten is allowing it.
We should be suing the NDIS for the vicarious liability in allowing our children to be harmed, attacked, terrorized and injured. None of these things should be happening to our children just because they have a disability – how dare they allow this to continue to happen with no accountability and no punishments.
The Royal Commission recommends a new Disability Rights Bill - it needs to be one where those who are harmed are not ignored but have the right to justice, and cctv cameras for protection and the right to be listened to when they have been attacked. If they are non verbal the onus should be on the providers to prove they did not harm them, and not on the disability person all the time who can never prove what happened to them – the injuries should speak for themselve.
Providers should be liable for every single injury and attack made on a vulnerable child, young person or adult in their care – as they are responsible and yes have duty of care, which if fails should be punished regardless who did it. The organization should be sued, fined or shut down. The standard is too low for providers to operate. There should be people with degrees in disabilities, psychology, social work or nursing who run group places not mere business people looking for another business to get rich by at the misery of the poor sods sent there by desperate and worn out parents afraid for their child’s future every day of their lives.
We should be rioting in the streets for our children’s lives and futures and not let the government keep getting away with allowing exploitation of disabilities to keep the economy looking good but not those with disabilities actually safe, or cared for properly by educated specialized people.
Even though the Royal Commission has now finished after four years and made 222 recommendations – the abuse and violence is still continuing in group homes, and day programs and schools against our children. These places need to be made accountable now. I look forward to the investigation into the NDIS report also coming up. There is serious rorting going on by the NDIS itself and then making claims that costs are blowing out when they did it themselves. Their failure to protect our children and adult children from harm is continuing - they need to get rid of those at the top and put actual compassionate trained in disabilities persons with education and understanding of what is needed running the system the system is cold clinical and has hurt so many and let them die also due to the lack of accountability, monitoring and human involvement in that regulating - it has become a corporate profit loving organization much like the politicians involved.
222 recommendations from the Royal Commission? The government needs to step up for this and at least address the harm that is occurring in jurisdiction of disability providers – the government and the NDIS have the blood of the innocent on their hands – those who have been harmed and cannot speak about it and are literally without a voice and those who have died because nobody cared leaves the NDIS culpable for its lack of regulation or care. May we see this change and the rights of those upheld in disabilities we must speak for them because they often cannot speak for themselves.
Sign my petition for CCTV in disabilities:      change.org/disabilitycameras
 we need hard evidence for any kind of justice for our young vulnerable disability children wherever they are being cared for or even educated.
All the best
Anndrea x