{"id":287188,"date":"2025-07-24T06:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287188\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T06:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:13:09","slug":"disability-employment-provider-bedford-to-go-into-voluntary-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287188\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability employment provider Bedford to go into voluntary administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Disability support service and employer Bedford will go into voluntary administration in the coming days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In a statement it said that, after an &#8220;exhaustive negotiation process with the state and federal governments, banking and commercial partners NAB&#8221;, it had advised its clients, families and staff that the organisation was expected to enter voluntary administration on Sunday, July 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The statement said the &#8220;heartbreaking&#8221; move would &#8220;directly impact 1,400 people with disability across South Australia&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Bedford CEO Myron Mann said it remained &#8220;steadfast in our commitment to supporting each of our clients, residents and staff during this challenging time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;It is a devastating situation with vast personal impact,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Bedford provides a haven for so many South Australians and has done so for the past 80 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;It is an incredibly disappointing outcome not only for Bedford but for the national disability sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He said the organisation had tried to \u00a0drive change and innovation to remain financially sustainable, but &#8220;the magnitude of challenges faced, particularly in relation to the supported employment model, remain complex to navigate and unprofitable for organisations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disability support service and employer Bedford will go into voluntary administration in the coming days.\u00a0 In a statement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[54777,107302,51,347,72722,897,107303,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-287188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-bedford","9":"tag-bedford-group","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-disability","12":"tag-employer","13":"tag-jobs","14":"tag-provider","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114906739767517337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}