The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was designed to be a market-based system that would shift power from government and providers to consumers. The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission's ...

The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability is moving into its final phase and will report its findings in September. For the last four years the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than one-third of mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities have an interaction with the child welfare system ...

The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has shared its final report. In this series, we unpack what the commission’s 222 recommendations could ...

The government discovered 33 suspected cases of abuse against people with disabilities after conducting a full inspection of 1,507 residential facilities for people with disabilities nationwide. To ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEWTON, Kan. (KSNW) — Proposed federal budget cuts could hurt programs that protect the rights of people with disabilities and ...

In his latest annual report, New Jersey's disability ombudsman said neglect, abuse and unsafe conditions persist at group homes. Paul Aronsohn's report describes a bureaucracy that often treats ...

Children with intellectual disabilities are not only more likely to be victims of sexual abuse but are also more susceptible to its harmful effects. "We already knew that children with intellectual ...

Aidan Burke came to school earlier this month with scabbed-over scratches on his chest, grayish bruises on his back and a deep, strawberry-red abrasion line circling his neck. The 19-year-old young ...

RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF THAT PERSON. WELL, IN THE PAST THREE YEARS, MORE THAN 1700 CASES OF PHYSICAL ABUSE AND NEGLECT AND DISABLED ADULTS HAVE BEEN RECORDED BY THE AGING AND DISABILITY COMMISSION ...