Ballarat families struggle to find respite care despite large disability funding
Some Ballarat families have big NDIS budgets but cannot use them. Service providers won't take children with profound autism because they say the children are too hard to care for.
Why it mattersFamilies with children who have profound autism are exhausted and trapped. They have money but nowhere to spend it. The disability support system is not working for them.
AustraliaFamilies right across Australia with children with profound autism face the same shortage of respite and specialist care despite the NDIS providing funding.
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