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Royal Commission News | Edition 27
7/09/2021
A new report released by the RC provides a ârapid evidence reviewâ of 168 peer reviewed papers on abuse of people with disability from Australia, NZ, the UK and Canada. The authors found the literature overwhelmingly focuses on individual people with disability and associated characteristics â rather than looking at system and perpetrator features. Other findings include:
âRather than identifying the ways in which the people who are closest to the person with disability, care workers, communities or societies fail, the research generally focuses on the ways in which people with disability struggle within existing systems,â the report notes (p. 4). The authors recommend further research on protective factors and interventions that take a lifespan perspective in protecting against the abuse of people with disability.