00:00 Segregation has been something that really has guided this whole Royal Commission.
00:07 It was one of the reasons really why the community wanted this Royal Commission established in
00:12 the first place because it saw segregated settings, for example, group homes, employment
00:18 and education, namely special schools, as where this abuse, violence, neglect and exploitation
00:24 was allowed to thrive.
00:25 So that's been a big key theme here.
00:28 Some of the key recommendations around segregation, let me kind of unpack them for you.
00:33 Let's go first to group homes.
00:35 Now to put it into context, about 17,000 people, mainly with intellectual disability, live
00:40 in group homes across Australia.
00:42 There's been a recommendation in this very lengthy report, one of the 222 recommendations,
00:48 is that group homes be phased out by, or in 15 years.
00:54 Now the second one is around employment.
00:58 Now to put it in a bit of context, Australian disability enterprises, those are where about
01:03 20,000 people with disability work, and we're talking things like cleaning and packing where
01:10 they're paid just over $2 an hour.
01:13 And there's a recommendation in here that the sort of bare minimum wages be phased out
01:21 and this segregated employment be phased out by 2034.
01:26 And if we move to education, there is a recommendation that, I mean, all the six commissioners have
01:35 acknowledged that the current status quo with segregated education should not remain and
01:41 that it's not okay.
01:42 But there is a split, a three to three split between these six commissioners on the approach
01:48 to that.
01:49 One approach is that by 2051, special schools and segregated education be phased out.
01:56 The other approach arguably is a more sort of soft approach by the other three commissioners
02:02 where there are no sort of set dates within it, but that they want sort of better relationships
02:09 between special education settings and the mainstream education.
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