It has been reported that a special agreement has been struck between Geoff Salmon, director of Carenne Support Ltd and a Special Needs Transport Service operator Dick Spears to make special arrangements regarding the transport of his son. These arrangements allow Mr Spears to over declare the number of kilometres traveled and receive overpayments from the NSW Department of Education and Training.
Mr Spears operates what Carenne Special School staff call the Oberon run. He runs his minibus in the area around the town of Oberon. Mr Spears is paid to take Mr Salmon's son to his home near Oberon, but an arrangement has been struck between Mr Salmon and Mr Spears to drop the student off at a home in Kelso when requested. It is alleged that Mr Spears does this without knowledge of the special transport unit and still declares the full kilometres of taking Mr Salmon's son home. This can result in over declarations of around 50 kilometres per day.
On some days when this arrangement is carried out Mr Spears uses another minibus with his wife as a driver and transports Mr Salmon's son to Kelso while he continues his own route. A number of staff allege that the department has not approved the splitting of the run in two as they did not know that Mr Spears had been transporting Mr Salmon's son to Kelso instead of Oberon.
Staff at Carenne Special School are well aware of this arrangement and have said nothing about it until now.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
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