Well this would be a fantastic idea, if public schools and community services were adequately funded Bill you dill.
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This will result in animosity between schools and parents, which in turn will impact on the individual needing this support most, and of course, take the heat off the NDIS aka Shorten to do his job, leaving parents, therapists and schools to scramble and squabble over services that are simply not in place, or are grossly inadequate due to a lack of critical funding.
It also has the potential to lock students with disabilities out of their preferred schools, both public and private, particularly when the schools themselves are increasingly obliged to provide this support themselves.
This is unbelievably smelly given Shorten himself would be very well aware of community health services waiting lists and public schools funding limitations. Public schools are struggling to provide teachers, let alone weekly prescribed therapies to disadvantaged students.
So many children will be denied "essential" early intervention and will not get the routine and predictable support they need, and struggle with forming trusting relationships with their key support service providers, ie Occupational therapists and Speech Pathologists, care workers etc.
Autistic and other children with additional needs will fall through the cracks AGAIN and our National Disability scheme will be on par with that of what, a developing countries?
( A friend of mine recently joked about taking a trip to India to get her child's ears fixed, as at least there's Australian charitable organisations performing these surgical procedures in tents for free in developing countries, meanwhile Australian children wait years on public hospital waiting lists.) Charity should begin at home, no?
Well, not if you're allowing the UN to dictate national policy I guess.
So apparently this is his BIG solution for making our NDIS more sustainable.... by rendering it inaccessible to those most vulnerable and who need it most. Children!
Well Done Shorten, you are certainly living up to your AWU portfolio aren't you. We used to call him showbag Shorten because he was a total drip and full of himself.
He only managed to get into politics because he impregnated the GGs daughter. Otherwise, he'd be still sliming his way up the AWU ladder of corruption along with his criminal pals.
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