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Disability royal commission questions lack of accountability from leaders of service providers after abuse uncovered

Former judge Ronald Sackville is chairing the royal commission.  (ABC News: Lucas Hill)

A disability royal commissioner says he has been struck by the fact that "nobody seems to have been held accountable" at a disability service provider in the two years since abuse was uncovered.

At hearings in Brisbane this week, the royal commission heard that no senior staff or board members at Sunnyfield Disability Services had been reprimanded over the abuse suffered by three residents at a Sydney group home.

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