Advocates are calling on the federal government to take immediate action on disability care homes after a watchdog report found thousands of reportable incidents in the past four years.
The report (pdf) released on Jan. 16, by the National Disability Insurance Scheme Quality and Safeguards Commission investigated seven NDIS-registered facilities.
It found that since 2019, there had been up to 7,000 incidents and complaints from disabled Australians living in supported accommodations known as “group homes.” Of those, 1,700 incidents involved a serious injury to a resident.
Additionally, 1,700 of the incidents included abuse, and more than 1,200 involved neglect, while there were 960 cases of unlawful physical contact, and 112 of unlawful sexual contact…. Source
Thousands of Cases of Abuse, Neglect of Disabled Australians Found in Report
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