Disability probe fails to hear from special schools
The absence of anyone to support special schools for children with a disability is ‘troubling’, inquiry hears.
The absence of anyone to support special schools for children with a disability is ‘troubling’, inquiry hears.
Teacher aides should no longer be required to assist children with disabilities go to the toilet or perform medical procedures.
A mother of five children with disabilities tells inquiry of her response to a complaining teacher.
Rural Australians should be receiving better access to aged care than those in the city, the aged care royal commission has heard.
Australians with disabilities ‘are too often seen as undeserving of the same education as other people’.
The royal commission’s early findings are damning, highlighting a grim and shameful state of affairs.
‘Cruel and harmful’ aged care must be reformed, a royal commission has urged.
An in-home care recipient fears she and others like her will be overlooked in the wash-up of the aged-care royal commission.
Health minister’s plan to integrate mental health system in ‘once in a decade’ transformation.
A million Australians with mental health conditions are going untreated each year, while the economic cost has hit $180bn.
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