26 year old on waiting list for residential care for 5 years

The financial shake up at Whaikaha has also left families of those with disabilites desperately seeking residential care, feeling hopeless. Spending on residential care has been frozen while a rapid review of pricing is conducted. Disability Issues Minister Louise Upston insists the freeze is on funding, not placements - and those needing residential care should still be able to get it. But a leaked document from Whaikaha to its service providers told them there would be no net increase in residential places while the freeze was in place.Fiona McKenzie, whose daughter Claudia has been on a residential care waiting list for five years already, told Susana Lei'ataua her family and others have been left upset and facing an uncertain future.