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DisabilityCare to be sent to private providers to implement - Sydney Morning Herald

By Anna Patty The NSW government plans to transfer all its disability services to the private sector from next year in preparation for the introduction of the national scheme, DisabilityCare, in 2018. Public service workers are concerned the transfer will mean a cut in their pay and conditions. The transfer is expected to include the redevelopment of group homes such as Stockton in Newcastle. The…

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NSW GOVT USES NDIS ROLL OUT AS TROJAN HORSE FOR PRIVATISATION OF DISABILITY SERVICES

MEDIA RELEASE The O’Farrell government will withdraw completely from disability services by 2018, leaving people with a disability in NSW at risk, according to the NSW Public Service Association. Assistant Secretary Steve Turner said the State government’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NSW Enabling) Bill cuts critical public disability support services. “People with some of the most complex disabilities and in need of greatest care will…

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Stop the Bill, demand a better deal for NSW Disability Services

The NSW Government wants to rush through legislation (National Disability Insurance Scheme (NSW Enabling) Bill) to fast track privatisation of disability services in NSW. We need your help to stop it. No attempt has been made to consult your union before introducing the Bill before Parliament. If it's passed it will directly affect the future of your job, your pay, your working conditions and entitlements and your future employment prospects.…

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Family and Community Services NDIS Bulletin 4

The Director General has recently written to advise that formal consultation on the NDIS has commenced. This is some 11 months after the NSW Government signed a formal agreement with the Commonwealth to privatise Disability Services in NSW by 2018, and only after legislation was tabled in the NSW Parliament to facilitate this change. It is misleading to suggest that FACS and the NSW Government…

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Fears NSW using NDIS deal to avoid disability funding, close residential care centres - ABC News

By Norman Hermant and Alison Branley Rob Burns remembers the day a professor told him to take his intellectually disabled son to an institution and leave him there. The now-closed institution in Newcastle was so bleak that during the first three months Mr Burns would not let his wife and daughters visit. More than 50 years later his son Wayne is still in full-time residential…

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