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Disability support worker shortage worsened by low pay, COVID-19 and doubts about careers

As a person on the autism spectrum, having ever-changing support workers has been a source of great anxiety for me.

After establishing a relationship with one, they have inevitably left the agency and I have been allocated a new support worker, and had to begin that process of building and maintaining a relationship time and time again.

I have had six support workers over a two-year period, but for the past two years, Lorraine Abel has been supporting me with tasks and activities that I find difficult to complete.

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