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Dignity of Risk vs Duty of care .

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Disclaimer – That these are my own lived experiences and understanding from the research that  I do around the NDIS and health-related topics please be aware that it is informational only and not to be used as a substitute for professional advice or working with a Planner, Disability Advocacy service or talking to your Medical and Allied Health team.    This is a post that I have been putting off writing due to the fact that I have my own care team,  and the political climate around the NDIS at the moment it seems that everyone has an opinion on it but isn't listening to the ones who have to deal with the amount of paperwork that getting a package and working with providers can entail and I am not saying that every provider is difficult like this but it can happen, this way due to the amount of paperwork that is involved in running a business that serves people with an NDIS package and this is where a duty of care is such a tricky thing due to a  number of factors the first bein

Social Justice vs actual accessibility and change

https://youtu.be/J1iRU5eI4Wc   Students are being forced into social justice models I see that this is driven from the top down and it's making things worse for the students but in the "social justice," framework there is one large population that is massively being left behind and this is the disabled community.  This is because it is very had to do a higher education degree when you have disabilities and most people with disabilities area actively discouraged from going to university and go to community college or tafe instead or straight into supported workplaces.  I know in most Universities they do have a disability services department, however as Dr Jorden Peterson pointed out it has become an department  in and of it's self that they students are the ones that suffer, I see that this is an issue due to the fact that they are the ones asking for help and it used to be a private agreement with the professor or teacher and the student.   The Disability Bureaucracy