Horrific revelations of abuse and exploitation of the country’s most vulnerable people will be brought to the fore in an upcoming Royal Commission report.
, whose pleas for school support were not met until a video showing emotional distress was shared worldwide.“This has been a monumental undertaking,” commission chair Ronald Sackville, KC, said in an emotive final hearing that paid tribute to Australians with a disability, their families, carers and advocates.
Counsel assisting the commission, Kate Eastman, said it had also been necessary to make some adverse findings. “We were told some group homes develop punitive cultures towards residents. A witness described a punishment chart which recorded when her daughter had not behaved according to the rules. If her daughter didn’t behave in the morning, the staff on shift would apply a consequence.”
“I lost count of the many practical and easy solutions these families tried to implement with their local school, and the structural and attitudinal barriers they continued to face.
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