Mitzi and others
"Once a disabled person has been assessed as need,under4 the NHS and
Community Care Act 1990 then the local-authourity and health have to meet
that persons assessed-needs. See below included by Kristina Stern,
Barrister, 9 Essex Street, London, and this will explain this to you and
others.
See link:-
http://www.39essex.co.uk/documents/Community_care_assessments_Stern.pdf
39 Essex Street website:- http://www.39essex.co.uk/index.php
Yours
Colin
>From: Mitzi Waltz <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Mitzi Waltz <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: local authority services
>Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:07:43 +0000
>
>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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