Andrew Constance asks HREOC to investigate Seven Hills West Public School

Andrew Constance, disability spokesman for the NSW opposition has called on the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission to investigate the use of an area referred to as the cage or "pig pen" at Seven Hills West Primary School. The move while welcome gives little comfort to the parents and carers of students subjected to abuse at Carenne Special School in Bathurst.

As a brief overview to the child abuse at Carenne, I have created a summary which may be viewed here.

The shadow education minister Adrian Picolli and the opposition leader Barry O'Farrell along with other MPs both state and federal have been aware of the issues at Carenne School and have done nothing about it. It is no good for Mr Constance to call for an investigation into one school after it was exposed by mainstream media when his side of politics has been aware of the issues at Carenne for almost 12 months.