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NSW Minister for Planning and Infrastructure, Brad Hazzard, has visited the Hunter to inspect key development sites and launch the State Government’s new discussion paper, ‘The Lower Hunter over the next 20 Years’. Addressing members of the development industry at Town Hall on Friday, Mr Hazzard said the discussion paper was crucial to ensuring positive growth in the region over the next 20 years...
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SENIORS WEEK Your guide to what’s on around town PAGE 18-19 Charlestown MP Andrew Cornwell and Northcott staff inspect the site of the new disability care facility at Mount Hutton
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taff from disability service provider, Northcott, were joined by local Member for Charlestown Andrew Cornwell on Wednesday morning as the MP inspected the site of Northcott’s new state-of-the-art accommodation facility for young people living with a disability. The villa-style properties at Mount Hutton are thought to be the fi rst of their kind in the region and will provide long-term accommodation for six young people who are currently living in aged care. In NSW, there are currently more than 6,500
young people with fulltime care needs living in aged care. Northcott’s Acting Service Manager NSW, Lyudmyla Dendtler, said the lack of appropriate accommodation for young people with disabilities was a primary concern for the organisation. “Nursing homes have a great purpose but not for young people,� she said. “We fi nd the main issue is the lack of privacy – sometimes these young people are sharing rooms with much older people. “It’s just going to be a completely different feeling [here]...people will be going out, having barbeques, picnics and inviting people in.� The $2.2 million project was made possible thanks to a capital grant provided by the State
Government through Ageing, Disability and Home Care (ADHC) and the project is due for completion at the end of next month. Mr Cornwell said the facility was vitally important. “It’s a question of human rights...Young people should have the opportunity to live with other young people, so this facility is a shining example of how it should be done.� He said the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, beginning in the Hunter in July, would provide opportunity for more private providers to establish similar facilities in the region to provide greater accommodation choices for young people with disabilities. @thepostjourno
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