Visiting Procedures at DARE During Coronavirus
DARE has documented the expected procedures for offsite visits by SIL residents and procedures for visitors to SIL residents. You can access these and the associated declarations below.
Offsite visits
Visits to SIL Houses
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Free preschool in NSW for up to six months
Parents in NSW will not have to pay preschool fees for up to six months thanks to a $51 million funding package announced by the NSW Government.
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Priority Home Delivery for NDIS Participants
As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting NDIS participants during this time, the NDIA has worked with supermarket retailers to make sure NDIS participants wanting support to grocery shop, have priority access to home delivery services.
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Support Local Businesses with Macquarie Marketplace
Do you know of a great deal offered by a business in the Hawkesbury or Blue Mountains? Many of our local businesses have diversified and adapted to a vastly changed environment. Check on the interactive map here
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DARE's Own Face Shields
Due to the high demand for PPE gear, we have had to improvise at DARE!
While we have some face shields, we don't have enough for all our homes in the case of an outbreak. So, over the past couple of weeks, DARE has been working on our own face shields using camping mats, zip ties, plastic, and electrical tape!
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Restrictions on Non-essential Services
The Australian Government has announced social distancing measures to protect the Australian community from the spread of the coronavirus. Restrictions have been placed on a number of non-essential services.
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Immediate response plan to focus on people with disability during coronavirus
An advisory group has been established by the Federal Government to guide development and implementation of a response plan focusing on the unique health needs of people with disability…
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Activ CEO Responds to Coronavirus Diagnosis of Supported Employee
Activ Bentley Business Services CEO, Danielle Newport, responds to the news that a supported employee was confirmed as having COVID-19. The employee did not contract the virus at an Activ site.
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Concerns for employees with a disability after confirmed coronavirus case in supported working facility
Disability advocates are calling for all supported workplaces to be shut after a workshop with more than 450 employees was forced to close temporarily due to a confirmed case of COVID-19.
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Australian Gov partners with private health sector to secure 30,000 hospital beds and 105,000 nurses and staff
A joint media release from Minister Hunt with Dr Nick Coatsworth, Australian Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Alison McMillan, Australian Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer, and the private health sector.
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Update on coronavirus measures
Australian governments met today as the National Cabinet to take further action to slow the spread of coronavirus to save lives, and to save livelihoods.
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$130 Billion JobKeeper Payment to keep Australians in a Job
The JobKeeper payment is a subsidy to businesses. It will help keep more Australians in jobs throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
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National Cabinet Statement on coronavirus (COVID-19)
Australian governments met again today as the National Cabinet to take further action to slow the spread of coronavirus to save lives and to save livelihoods.
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Dubbo's Westhaven advises of 14 staff, residents self-isolating
NSW Health is investigating how a woman in permanent care at a Westhaven facility in Dubbo contracted the potentially-deadly coronavirus, COVID-19.
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Update on coronavirus (COVID-19) measures from the Prime Minister
The Prime Minister has announced new measures to slow the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). Read the transcript here.
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Assistance for organisations
This alert provides a summary of Australian Government measures available to businesses during the Coronavirus pandemic.
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COVID-19 Updates
The NDIA is making some changes to the plan review process in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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COVID-19 and the NDIS: Joint Union and NDS Statement
People with disability and their families cannot be left alone to fight COVID-19, says peak bodies and key unions.
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Information for support workers and access to PPE
The following information has been cleared by the Australian Government Department of Health.
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Update on COVID-19 Measures from the Prime Minister
The Prime Minister, the Hon. Scott Morrison MP, announced new measures and restrictions to protect the Australian community from the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) on 22 March 2020.
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