If you or anyone you know needs help
- Lifeline: 13 11 14
- MensLine: 1300 789 978
- Kids Helpline: 1800 551 800
- 1800RESPECT: 1800 737 732
- National Disability Abuse and Neglect Hotline: 1800 880 052
- Aboriginal Family Domestic Violence Hotline: 1800 019 123
Zero Tolerance (an NDS initiative) assists disability service providers to understand, implement and improve practices which safeguard the rights of people
they support.
Find out more about the Royal Commission
Royal Commission Provider Hearings
29/06/2021
- Robert Fitzgerald (Fmr Child Abuse Royal Commissioner) at NDS CEOsâ Meeting, 2018.
The Royal Commissionâs recent focus on disability services made for difficult viewing at times. Hearings included gruelling questioning and forensic investigation of services. The breadth of documentation considered was significant; in some cases, drafts of specific documents were compared with final copies.
Where we may have watched hearings of the Aged Care or Banking Royal Commissions with interest from a distance, the last month of the Disability Royal Commission felt more personal.