Disability services provider urged to apologise and compensate woman for ‘artificial’ and ‘inadequate’ barista training course

Participant in BusyBeans program told the disability royal commission the training left her with a broken life'

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A company that received nearly $1m in federal government funding has been advised by the disability royal commission to apologise and make appropriate redress to a woman employed in an artificial" and inadequate" barista training course that she said left her with a broken life".

The commission on Tuesday released its report and recommendations into the case of Disability Employment Services (DES) participant Mzia*, who was enrolled in 2019 in the BusyBeans coffee school", billed as a barista training course for people with disability.

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Mzia is a pseudonym provided by the royal commission