IHC says the extra $1.1 billion over five years that the government has allocated to Whaikaha in the Budget must be used to make a real difference to the lives of intellectually disabled people.
Research has shown that intellectually disabled people are great employees, and hiring them can result in improvements in profitability, greater cost-effectiveness, lower employee turnover, high rates of employee retention, reliability, punctuality, loyalty .
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