Yep, it's their favourite get-out clause, so Colin beware! Just cause it's in your care plan
doesn;t mean it actually
has to be delivered!
We had our second social services "assessment" in 5 years last night, which ended just like
the last one. "Yes,
we can see that your son has significant needs, but we only provide services for people with
severe learning
disabilities or severe physical disabilities. Perhaps CAMHS can help?" (Of course, it was
CAMHS, in a letter co-
signed by a representative of the LEA and the school social worker, that triggered the
asessment in the first
place.)
At least the worker this time was polite and honest. The last one tried to tell us that because
our social services
dept. had "adopted the social model" (don't make me laugh...), all children with disabilities
are being referred to
mainstream services. Without support, of course, and without doing anything to make
mainstream services
accessible. Which means (as I so nicely tried to explain to the idiot, whilst trying to restrain
my partner whose
response to this BS was... somewhat more physical) that the disablement will be complete--
no "special"
accessible services, and no realistic hope of access to mainstream services either. But I bet it
saves lots of
money!
In further proof that scum always rises, the worker who came along last night noted that the
fellow whose
understanding of the social model is so ass-backwards is now her supervisor...
Sigh... perhaps it's time to get my army boots out of retirement.
Mitzi
Hazel wrote:
> "No authority could be
> compelled to provide supervision or facilities that did not exist"
>
> Itīs an interesting point isnīt it, that as long as a local authority
> chooses not to set up facilities, it is not obliged to offer them,
> whereasonce it has set up a system, then it is obliged to provide
> it. Under this
> basis, I live in a county which does not provide respite facilities
> forparents of children with learning difficulties, and I can cite
> cases which
> I have been involved in where children have been taken into care after
> parents have suffered mental breakdowns after years of pleading for
> helpand receiving nothing due to the point above.
>
> Hazel
>
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