Documents detailing serious complaints about mistreatment and abuse of children with a disability by teaching staff, have been obtained by a disability advocate group under a Freedom of Information request.
Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) CEO Mary Sayers, says that reports of physical and sexual abuse across state insitutions were among complaints obtained by the organisaiton, as a Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability begins in Townsville this week.
Greens Senator Jordan Steele-John, who is in Townsville for the start of the Commission, says that Australia is failing children with disabilities and their families.