A disability service closed after a client’s complaint of his carer’s violence and conduct prompted an audit. The Ministry of Health cut funding after concerns about the service’s operations and finances. Deputy Commissioner Rose Wall found the carer breached the client’s rights and demanded apologies from him and the service’s trustees.
A disability service has closed down after one of its clients complained that a carer used him as a “punching bag” in the gym, pressured him into using cannabis and showed him an inappropriate video on his phone. The carer, who had known the intellectually disabled client since both were teenagers, “was a young man who was not equipped to work in the disability field and should never have been employed there”, according to a manager’s report..
