The NDIS regulator commissions an independent inquiry after an ABC investigation found providers had unlawfully restrained children with disabilities in a manner which amounted to a breach of human rights.
The NDIS regulator has commissioned an independent inquiry after an ABC investigation found providers had unlawfully restrained children with disabilities in a manner which amounted to a breach of human rights.
Now, the regulator, NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission has announced the appointment of an "eminent former judge" to conduct an independent review. The NDIS Commission said it established the independent review because of the "serious nature of the Irabina matter and the continued emergence of additional information".Children with autism spent hours with staff in padded rooms, where they were sometimes sat on and held down by adults as part of a controversial NDIS-funded therapy.
Neither the minister nor the NDIS Commission would answer specific questions about evidence that restrictive such as seclusion continued at Irabina. In an apparent about-face by Ms Mackey, four providers that were featured in the Four Corners program have been banned from the sector, despite the NDIS Commissioner previously defending the decision to not penalise them.When Four Corners interviewed Commissioner Mackey, Ms Goldfinch was still working in the sector despite the commission closing its Severe Behaviour Program.
But this month, the commission permanently banned Ms Kaur from "being involved, either directly or indirectly, in the provision of NDIS supports or services to people with disability".
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