30 Sep 2020

QC enters fight over rehab centre closure

From Nine To Noon, 9:30 am on 30 September 2020
Laura Fergusson Rehabilitation centre in Auckland.

Laura Fergusson Rehabilitation centre in Auckland. Photo: RNZ

Questions are being raised over the closure of the Laura Fergusson Trust Rehabilitation Centre - the only specialised facility of its kind for disabled people in Auckland.

The Trust's board spent $670-thousand dollars of public money and donations on consultants, while it posted a million-dollar loss in 2019. 

Auckland company director Victoria Carter, whose niece spent three months at the Centre after a horse-riding accident, is querying that spending and has instructed a QC to seek information from the Trust board.

But she says the inquiries have been met with stalling tactics and secrecy.

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