A thousand allegations of abuse for just 18 prosecutions, NSW Ombudsman reveals
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- Category: Child protection statistics
- Created: Wednesday, 31 August 2016 00:00
- Written by James Robertson - Sydney Morning Herald
More than 1000 incidents of abuse and neglect of people with disabilities have been reported to the state government in the past two years, the NSW Ombudsman has revealed, but only a tiny fraction have been prosecuted.
These include nearly 500 criminal allegations of abuse of people with a disability by employees and residents in supported accommodation, according to figures provided exclusively to the Herald.
Some 275 of these criminal allegations are against employees and include sexual offences, assaults and fraud against people with a disability in supported accommodation services run or funded by the state government.
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About 40 per cent of the employees facing allegations were found to have behaved unacceptably, a spokeswoman for the Ombudsman said.
