Disability services company pocketed nearly $1m for barista course lacking basic equipment, inquiry hears
by Luke Henriques-Gomes Social affairs and inequality from World news | The Guardian on (#5WDZV)
Witness tells royal commission she arrived at new job as barista trainer to find only a home coffee machine and bottle of long life milk
A barista course spruiked by the national disability insurance scheme and for which a company pocketed nearly $1m from the federal government lacked the most basic equipment, an inquiry has been told.
Over a three-day hearing this week, the disability royal commission is investigating the troubled Disability Employment Services program, a $1.4bn a year federal government scheme that pays companies and non-profits to get hundreds of thousands of people with disability into work.
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