The government wants to save $463m by tightening disability support to school students. What’s going on?
- Written by Catherine Smith, Senior Lecturer of Wellbeing Science, The University of Melbourne
Alistair Berg/Getty Images The federal government has announced a new “safeguard” around how funding is spent to support school students with disabilities.
The budget papers say there is an issue with “inaccurate claiming” by schools and new controls are needed to prevent “fraud and non-compliance”.
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