25 Jun 2019

Respite care for families of disabled people put on hold

From Morning Report, 8:47 am on 25 June 2019

A new service allowing families of disabled people to choose their own respite care has been put on hold because the government wouldn't stump up $10 million.

'I Choose' would have paid families between $500 to $5000 a year, allowing them to buy the respite support which suited them best.

But the government baulked at the cost of the scheme. Catherine Hutton reports.