Disability advocate says figures from the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission ‘are truly awful and sickening’. Australia’s disabilities services watchdog is fielding nearly 100 allegations of abuse or neglect a week, while NDIS providers admitted restraining participants 6,000 times without proper authorisation in the first three months since the NDIS commission’s national expansion.
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- Service providers
- Author:
- Luke Henriques-Gomes
- Source:
- The Guardian
- Date published:
- Fri 31st Jan, 2020