A number of concerned parents have contacted Carenne Gate after being given a note telling them that they are required to pay $100 per year for their child to attend the riding for the disabled program at Carenne Special School this year.
Parents asked Carenne Gate if the school was still being forced by RDA to pay $80 per student per term in addition to the $100 per annum fee being imposed on parents. In the past, parents paid nothing for their children to attend the program, although a $15 per term fee was imposed on students who only attended the therapy farm after the Snowden review found that the school should not be funding RDA projects.
Following an investigation by Carenne Gate which found that other RDA centres charged participants anywhere from nothing to $35 per year, RDA President Nola Ramsay was contacted who refused to provide any explanation about why Bathurst charged almost three times more than any other RDA in NSW.
Issues at RDA in Bathurst have been a regular occurrence ever since Michael Auld became a member of its committee in 2007 according to a number of Carenne staff. RDA has been involved in a number of questionable activities including the payment of former President Mike Biddle for his son's services, parents being used to clean the premises, siphoning of Trade Training Centre funding to RDA, the program being overly dependent on Melinda Gavin, the failure of the committee to have proper insurance and ripping Carenne Special School off.
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Friday, March 25, 2011
Saturday, September 11, 2010
RDA still on hold due to Auld and Gavin's mistake
It's been almost six weeks since Carenne Gate exposed that the Riding for the Disabled Association in Bathurst, of which Carenne Special School staff Michael Auld and Melinda Gavin are on the management committee didn't have public liability insurance.
The RDA program has been suspended due to the error, with an RDA whistleblower telling Carenne Gate in July that Michael Auld didn't believe RDA needed the insurance and that the school's insurance would cover the association. Following the discovery that Michael Auld and Melinda Gavin had considered it unimportant to have public liability insurance, the association's president Nola Ramsay stood down, not wishing to be associated with such a poorly ran organisation.
Despite it being six weeks since RDA had to suspend its activities, proper insurance has still not been obtained, despite the school paying the association $80 per student who was to attend the program this term six weeks ago. Nedkelly told Carenne Gate "It's complete bullshit that RDA has been paid by the school for this term when none of the students can go there, what sort of ****wit would agree to that?"
Concerns have also been raised about the therapy farm, also ran through RDA, for which parents were asked to contribute $25 per term towards so students could spend 45 minutes per week there. Nedkelly said "The therapy farm is bullshit too, the students can't go to that because of the insurance, yet you have Auld going on about how great the animals at the farm are coming along and how his class are working there.
"How can Auld's class possibly be on-site when there is no insurance? He is doing what he calls work experience there."
It's high time that the members of RDA, who are being led astray by the likes of Mr Auld and Mrs Gavin sack the commitee and start elect new people to run the association.
The RDA program has been suspended due to the error, with an RDA whistleblower telling Carenne Gate in July that Michael Auld didn't believe RDA needed the insurance and that the school's insurance would cover the association. Following the discovery that Michael Auld and Melinda Gavin had considered it unimportant to have public liability insurance, the association's president Nola Ramsay stood down, not wishing to be associated with such a poorly ran organisation.
Despite it being six weeks since RDA had to suspend its activities, proper insurance has still not been obtained, despite the school paying the association $80 per student who was to attend the program this term six weeks ago. Nedkelly told Carenne Gate "It's complete bullshit that RDA has been paid by the school for this term when none of the students can go there, what sort of ****wit would agree to that?"
Concerns have also been raised about the therapy farm, also ran through RDA, for which parents were asked to contribute $25 per term towards so students could spend 45 minutes per week there. Nedkelly said "The therapy farm is bullshit too, the students can't go to that because of the insurance, yet you have Auld going on about how great the animals at the farm are coming along and how his class are working there.
"How can Auld's class possibly be on-site when there is no insurance? He is doing what he calls work experience there."
It's high time that the members of RDA, who are being led astray by the likes of Mr Auld and Mrs Gavin sack the commitee and start elect new people to run the association.
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