Afternoon Update: human oversight of aged care tool could return; Neil the seal safety concerns; and a valuable painting left on the street

Good afternoon.The Senate has passed legislation to return human oversight to an aged care algorithm described by elderly Australians and their carers as “cruel” and “inhumane”, with the government conceding some decisions made by the tool need review.The integrated assessment tool (IAT), introduced in November, is used to determine the level of home support funding and care elderly people are entitled to.But, as revealed by Guardian Australia, the algorithm underpinning the tool has frequently under-assessed people and left them without adequate care, while expert assessors were explicitly prohibited from overriding the tool when it made a wrong assessment.Top news

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