Dear Truthwbhb…..a timely post with insight into my next posting and the one after that too….AFFORD have not dealt with this incident in a responsible manner and I suspect this is because of the reasons you have highlighted in your contribution that is appreciated. Thank you. My investigations have unearthed precisely the things that are the subject matter of your post. The operation, as seen by their website, is typically a corporate structure with focus more aligned for self interest and reward for sales than it is in delivering the care which is their core business and not to mention the very reason why the Govt provides over $40m funding annually to them. Something has to give! I have taken on board the allegations of bullying and the like and doing my best to address this too. Some members of the board might not escape unscathed despite sitting in the audience for the moment.

This is a tragic incident that is unforgivable yet the top man sits laughing backed by a board fully aware his anything but professional and also supported by HR bimbo who will gladly sweep things such as sexual harassment under the carpet.

You have started opening the closet but don’t be alarmed when the clown jumps out with the red nose and calls.

Hi Sarah…..thx for letting us know about your daughter. I am getting plenty reports about lack of care and this is surprising given the funding provided. Where Merna resided at Woodbine, the group home could cater for up to 5 clients but only had 3 clients at the time. Total funding provided by NDIS to AFFORD, not including funding for day activities etc, was approximately $12,000 per week! So it is very disturbing for me to hear that there could possibly be any lack of care provided under these circumstances, not to mention how disturbing it must have been for your daughter. I’m digging deeper and deeper and shall post Part III very soon. I suggest you consider moving your daughter to a centre that actually delivers the care they are paid to. Thanks too for your words of encouragement. U bet I will keep up the fight for those people in our society deserving better care. This fight is also a fight to pave the way for all of the lovely genuine carers being able to have a voice and more importantly a means whereby they can just get on with doing what they do best, and on that note please be advised I am working on a plan here for them.

Hi Robbie…it’s amazing the support we are receiving and I do indeed thank you for your support too. Unfortunately my job is not to nail them but is to seek out the truth, and I will do that come what may. However it seems evident they may in fact nail themselves this time round instead of nailing the vulnerable and innocent ones.

Gidday Jacqueline…..that’s awesome advice and you can bet everything you suggested will be followed up. I have a full factual team and will launch them soon, but have just been gathering information for them. What you have provided will assist greatly….thank you.

Hi Sharon….so nice to receive your input, thank you. I agree, it’s not only about filling in the time and collecting the pay packet. There has to be the delivery of care in the formulae too, and it sounds to me like you do that and I so pleased to hear that. I am sure the clients needing the care, and the govt so graciously providing the funding for this care will also agree. I was, and still am, supportive of AFFORD coming clean with the truth and I initially took this matter on not suspecting for one minute that they would not. But their actions after the incident are mighty suspicious for an organisation alleging they did nothing wrong. What is it they say, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck…

I will be posting some more very soon and sadly revealing some more cracks in the AFFORD story. Thx Sharon