North Yorkshire Social Services’ spawn*…
and their suggestions for the better imprisonment - sorry management - of an adult with multiple disabilities in their own home.
1. Bolts on internal doors denying said adult access to fire exits at night.
2. Lock wheelchair away at night so she has to crawl to the toilet. Dignified.
Both needless to say did not get past the ‘imbecile suggestion in defiance of fire regs and human rights’ stage. It appears I am not alone in my dismay at the general lack of quality in social workers: Chicken Yoghurt writes:
I have relatives who are foster carers. They’ve been doing it for around fifteen years. They could tell you stories about what happens to unwanted children in this country that would turn your hair white. God knows the stories make me want to take a horsewhip to some of the social workers involved.
Yep, I have about 15 years experience of them, too. I think horsewhipping is about right. For a first offence.
* a £5 million a year turnover charity to which care of adults with disabilities has been contracted.
October 25, 2007 at 5:28 pm
I think the one of the major problems is that some - and I must emphasise the some - social workers cross the line where their responsibility for child welfare (or an adult with disabilities) becomes Just A Job.
I’d suggest that when that happens, the social worker involved should consider a new career. Viewing another person’s life as routine, mundane, workaday or where measures are introduced to make to the social worker’s life easier to the detriment of the ‘client’ (a hateful term) is healthy for none of the parties involved.