Regulating agencies respond after fatal crash at Diddillibah Lifestyle Supports facility
Regulating agencies for disability support services are tight-lipped about the future of a Coast facility after a worker was charged over a fatal crash.
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The regulating agencies for disability support services have remained tight-lipped about the future of a Sunshine Coast facility after a worker was charged over a fatal crash.
A spokesman for the National Disability Insurance Scheme Quality and Safeguards Commission, which regulates the scheme's service providers, said their thoughts and sympathies were with the family of a 30-year-old client who died after a ute crashed at Lifestyle Supports' Diddillibah property on December 14.
The spokesman said the agency was unable to comment further on the matter as a 22-year-old Coolum man was due to face court charged with dangerously operating a motor vehicle causing death and driving while a relevant drug was in his system.
The agency is responsible for investigating concerns, complaints and reportable incidents.
"When breaches of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Code of Conduct occur, we can take a range of actions, including banning a person from providing National Disability Insurance Scheme supports and services," the agency spokesman said.
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A spokeswoman for Department of Seniors, Disability Services and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships said it would be inappropriate to comment on the employment status of the Lifestyle Supports staff member but said a new nationally consistent worker screening system was introduced in Queensland last month.
"Queensland's new disability worker screening framework significantly enhanced the already robust safeguards that were in place for people with disability," she said.
"Under the new framework, there is a 'no card no start' policy which means that people cannot work for a National Disability Insurance Scheme service provider until they have been provided with a clearance."
Lifestyle Supports founder Omar Suleiman did not respond to requests for comment about the future of his Diddillibah facility.
Police at the time of the crash said a driver and two passengers were in the ute which crashed into a deep body of water.
The driver and a 19-year-old man in the front passenger seat were able to escape.
The male rear passenger, who was 29 at the time, was trapped for a short time before being removed via a window.
He was taken to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a critical condition and remained on life support until he died on December 18.
The Coolum man was last week issued a notice to appear in Maroochydore Magistrates Court on April 9.
Originally published as Regulating agencies respond after fatal crash at Diddillibah Lifestyle Supports facility
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