What has changed since disability care scandal of the 1980s and ’90s?

Despite rapes, deaths and neglect in care, the disability sector is obsessed with self-protection.

The Age has recently detailed horrendous events that occurred in a disability house in the 1980s and 1990s. The question that cannot be avoided is: what has changed?

Max Jackson is a consultant in the disability sector and former chief executive of Kew Cottages.

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Topics:
Housing, Human Rights

Author:
Max Jackson

Source:
The Age

Date published:
Tue 21st Apr, 2015