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The State Government has still not reached a goal it set to vaccinate 900 high-priority disability support workers in government-run care facilities by the end of March, with close to 45 per cent of the workforce yet to receive a COVID jab.
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Disability advocates have backed calls for a full independent investigation into a “horrific” case of alleged neglect at a government-run Adelaide care facility.
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The future of a former hospital and disability institution in Fullarton is likely to be made clearer within weeks, as the State Government considers feedback from people living with disability about what should happen to the vacant and dilapidated site.
Children in detention will from today be able to meet with Aboriginal Elders and reflect on their offending in a new outdoor space, as part of a State Government push to curb the overrepresentation of Aboriginal youth in the justice system.
A multi-million dollar fund aimed at preventing homelessness – and described as “critical” by the State Government – is lying dormant, eight months after tenders closed for service providers seeking to keep people off the streets.
Young South Australian offenders will be offered more support to stay out of prison under a privatised community service program, the State Government says, despite conceding it has cut $400,000 from the program’s funding.
The controversial practices of restraining, sedating or confining people with disability to control their behaviour will only be allowed as a last resort under proposed legislation to be introduced to state parliament early next year.
