A woman and a man in their mid-thirties were in love and sought to share a home and a life together. They lived in separate group homes operated by a disability support agency and despite their desire to live together, little or no support was offered by the agency to assist them to find somewhere they could both live with access to disability supports despite the fact that they operated many group homes.
Another man with physical disability organised for a paid sex worker to visit him in his bedroom in a group home. Staff refused to let the sex worker enter the house to visit the man on the ground of ‘duty of care’ without explaining how this action breached ‘duty of care’ for the resident.
A gay man who uses a wheelchair and who lives in a residential facility regularly goes out to gay clubs. He is constantly harassed by the support staff because he needs their support to get into bed when he comes home late at night.
