Distressing cases reveal inadequacy of disability services

Leigh Gath pictured in 2011. As Confidential Recipient, Ms Gath fields complaints about services, and has documented some 320 new concerns raised in 2019-2020, the period covered in the new report issued earlier today. Picture: Liam Burke

Leigh Gath pictured in 2011. As Confidential Recipient, Ms Gath fields complaints about services, and has documented some 320 new concerns raised in 2019-2020, the period covered in the new report issued earlier today. Picture: Liam Burke

Over 1,000 complaints about residential care services have now been received by the Office of the Confidential Recipient, a new report shows. The distressing cases include:

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