Read today's article in the Daily Telegraph by Gemma Jones on the problems of financial losses and alleged mismanagement of case files in the protected estates division of the NSW Trustee and Guardian. The problems about case files are typical of the woes that have beset what used to be the Office of the Protective Commissioner for more than a decade.
In May 2009 the Auditor General reported that the Protective Commissioner's common fund had been reduced in value by $197 million due to the global economic crisis. The linking of it to the Public Trustee NSW gives it only a small breathing space with access to some monies that will run out probably around the time of the next state election.
The picture about the Attorney General's Department just continues to worsen.
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Interesting. The Government tried to keep the loss of common funds monies out of the public eye during the June 2009 debate over the NSW Trustee and Guardian Bill.It would have been most embarrassing if the mainstream media had put the blow-torch on the Government for its deliberate subsidy cuts to the Protective Commissioner.
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