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Flaws in the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability prevented it from making important recommendations in relation to legal and policy reform, according to Australian researchers. The team say that these flaws prevented the Commission from recommending important policies to uphold the rights of people with intellectual disabilities to become parents and to receive the support they need for parenting over the life course. They say that some of the approaches taken by the Commission to examine the topic at the broad group level and by encompassing all parents with disabilities, they failed to recognise the specific contextual factors that expose parents with intellectual disabilities to increased risk of violence and abuse. They also suggest that the issue of parenting and child protection contact was primarily considered in relation to First Nations families, which brought critical attention to some aspects of systemic violence and abuse, but issues and experiences of non-Indigenous parents with intellectual disabilities were absent.
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