Crimes Against a Disabled Person

 To Be Updat­ed as new infor­ma­tion is assessed.

Vic­tims : Nina McDon­ald and Alexan­der Hen­der­son of Biggen­den

Breach­es of Dis­abil­i­ty Ser­vice Act 2006
24 (1) (2),  25 (b) ©, 26 (a,b,c)  28 29 (a) (b) 30
By Sims employed by North Bur­nett Region­al Coun­cil

North Bur­nett Region­al Coun­cil Pro­vides ser­vices to all res­i­dents in their local area. Rate Pay­ers and renters. In that capac­i­ty NBRC pro­vides ser­vices to the sec­tor of the com­mu­ni­ty who are dis­abled.

North Bur­nett Region­al Coun­cil are there­fore required to fol­low all Queens­land and Com­mon­wealth laws and acts includ­ing the fol­low­ing. The full acts are down­load­able below or by google search with an added PDF to your search string.

Dis­abil­i­ty Ser­vices Act 2006 
Dis­abil­i­ty Act Queens­land
Anti Dis­crim­i­na­tion Act Queens­land
Human Rights Act Queens­land 2019
Queens­land Dis­abil­i­ty plan 2022 ‑2027

Every per­son has the right to be treat­ed as indi­vid­u­als with indi­vid­ual needs. They have the right to be pro­vid­ed with infor­ma­tion and ser­vices in a way they can under­stand and is eas­i­ly acces­si­ble. They also have the right to assis­tance pro­vid­ed to them and offered in a way they can under­stand.

When deal­ing with a per­son on the autism spec­trum and one with ADHD PTSD and dyslex­ia Coun­cil has a few legal oblig­a­tions and guide­lines, laws that they must adhere to.  The first is full con­sid­er­a­tion of their abil­i­ties to respond, and deal with all the infor­ma­tion to a sat­is­fac­to­ry out come of the for the res­i­dent, before coun­cil as the res­i­dent always comes first, you are serv­ing them, the pub­lic.
The answer to the obvi­ous ques­tion is “you did­n’t ask” when you ask “how did we know?”
When ascer­tain­ing dis­abil­i­ty ASK comes first. Non judge­men­tal eye from a base of accep­tance is sec­ond.
Queens­land Anti Dis­crim­i­na­tion Laws.

Direct and indirect discrimination
Direct disability discrimination happens when a person with a disability is treated less favourably than a person
without that disability in the same or similar circumstances.
Indirect discrimination can be less obvious. It can happen when employers or service providers put in place
conditions, requirements or practices that appear to treat everyone the same but which actually disadvantage
some people because of their disability. It will be discriminatory if a requirement or condition:
• applies to everyone, but because of their disability the person is not able to comply or, although able to
comply, would suffer serious disadvantage by doing so, and
• the requirement or condition disadvantages a person because of their disability, and
• it is unreasonable in all of the circumstance

Here is a few of them which I will both expand and nar­row down with pre­ci­sion to add to the list of seri­ous breach­es and crimes per­pe­trat­ed By NBRC

 

24Ser­vices to be tai­lored to meet indi­vid­ual needs and goals

(1)Ser­vices should be tai­lored to meet the indi­vid­ual needs and goals of peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ty.

(2)To be respon­sive to the needs and goals of peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ty, inno­va­tion and flex­i­bil­i­ty are encour­aged when design­ing ser­vices.

25Peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ty expe­ri­enc­ing addi­tion­al bar­ri­ers

Ser­vices should be designed and imple­ment­ed to meet the needs of peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ty who may expe­ri­ence addi­tion­al bar­ri­ers—

(b)because of their age, gen­der or cul­tur­al­ly or lin­guis­ti­cal­ly diverse back­grounds; or

©because of their rur­al or remote loca­tion.

26Pro­mo­tion of com­pe­ten­cy, pos­i­tive image and self-esteem

Ser­vices should be designed and imple­ment­ed to—

(a)pro­mote recog­ni­tion of the com­pe­tence of peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ty; and

(b)pro­mote a pos­i­tive image of peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ty; and

©enhance the self-esteem of peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ty

 

28No sin­gle ser­vice provider to exer­cise con­trol over life of per­son with dis­abil­i­ty

Ser­vices should be designed and imple­ment­ed to ensure that no sin­gle ser­vice provider exer­cis­es con­trol over all or most aspects of the life of a per­son with dis­abil­i­ty.

29Con­sid­er­a­tion for oth­ers involved with peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ty

Ser­vices should be designed and imple­ment­ed to—

(a)have suf­fi­cient regard to the needs of fam­i­lies, car­ers and advo­cates of peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ty; and

(b)recog­nise the demands on the fam­i­lies of peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ty; and

©take into account the impli­ca­tions for, and demands on, the fam­i­lies of peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ty.

30Ser­vice providers to make infor­ma­tion avail­able

(1)Ser­vice providers should make avail­able infor­ma­tion that allows the qual­i­ty of their ser­vices to be judged.

(2)The infor­ma­tion should be avail­able to the peo­ple using the ser­vices, their fam­i­lies, car­ers and advo­cates, peo­ple giv­ing finan­cial assis­tance for the ser­vices and the com­mu­ni­ty gen­er­al­ly.