This Robbi Williams is the CEO of SA's Julia Farr Organisation and he has a solid uncompromising view of the goods and bads of disability. You may agree, you may disagree, but at least he provokes us to think about the lot we currently have for our disabled family members.
Here is an extract from his Blog...
As you may know, there is currently a review of the National Standards for Disability Services.
The Standards were implemented in 1993 with the goal of ensuring Commonwealth and State funded disability services have a positive impact in people’s lives. The Standards provide the framework for disability service provision expectations and apparently the Standards focus on ensuring services are addressing the principles and objectives of Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, including assisting people to integrate into community, assisting people to achieve positive outcomes, such as Independence, and promoting in the community a positive image of people and enhancing their self-esteem (taken from the Commonwealth Disability Services Act 1986, which you can access by clicking here).
Well, if that’s true then the Standards have failed. Failed, failed, failed. Just reading the Shut Out Report (see the Sunnyfield December Blog Dr Rhonda Galbally "Shut Out" report for our posting) is more than enough evidence of that. Seventeen years on from the introduction of the Standards, there are many, many Australians living with disability who have not been assisted to integrate into community, who have not been supported to achieve positive outcomes such as independence, and where there are not sufficient positive images within community of people living with disability as valued citizens.
Read his commentary here...
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