Disability funding changes to family care not good enough

A disability rights' advocate has described new changes to funded family care as "lipstick on a pig". The Associate Minister for Health Jenny Salesa yesterday announced it was dropping the minimum age for funded family care to 16. It's the second raft of changes since the minister announced a pay rise of about 2000-dollars per carer in July, and began allowing spouses and partners to become carers. The government also dropped the requirement for a formal employment relationship between carers and clients. But advocate Jane Carrigan, who's challenging the government in court over its family care policies, told Katie Todd the latest changes don't go far enough.