<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The future of Bedford, South Australia's largest disability employer, remains uncertain despite the state government offering millions of dollars to buy it more time. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The organisation, which employs 1400 vulnerable South Australians, announced on Thursday it could soon enter voluntary administration.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Bedford employees returned to work on Friday amidst the uncertainty. </span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/perth-teen-charged-woman-killed-by-motorbike-edgewater/74d762bd-c88c-4c22-a49f-5a04459d8f22"><strong><span>Boy, 17, charged with manslaughter after woman killed in Perth park</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The company's chair, Janet Miller, said the financial difficulties facing it were due in part to investments made to comply with recommendations from the 2023 disability royal commission. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>These investments included ventures such as landscaping company GreenInc, timber manufacturer Dovetail, and food maker Cultivate, with two slated for a $50 million hub in Salisbury. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There is the strategy that we've embarked upon to transition those employees to open employment, and those businesses not getting the traction within the time that we expected they would," Miller said. </span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/future-of-sas-largest-disability-employer-uncertain-as-financial-crisis-laid-bare/7e52dca8-00c8-4df7-93a2-95d16d51e4f7" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Because those things haven't delivered in the timeline we expected, we found ourselves with a cash flow problem."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Federal Disability Minister Mark Butler said he was appalled at the situation. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The depth of this crisis cannot be overstated," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The federal government has declined to provide further funding under the current governance structure, while Miller has offered to step down.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I've already made the offer to the premier that if this requires a different structure that that is absolutely on the table," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The state government was negotiating a potential funding deal, although the exact amount and conditions remained unclear.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We don't want to put money into this exercise only to see it lost and then the business to end up in administration anyway," Premier Peter Malinauskas said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>This article was produced with the assistance of </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/technology/9express/16480c33-636a-461f-9c4f-d0e2522c722a"><span>9ExPress</span></a><span>.</span></div></div>