Giving Potential Victims a Voice!

Blimey! You folk have really pi**ed off the authoritarian voice of social services. Congratulations â it does my heart good to see what a difference your voices made.
I was aware before that helping you make your voice heard in a matter that may affect each and every one of you in the future had been an unpopular move, and there had been much hissing and booing in the social services boondocks as a result â I hadnât realised until today that they had taken the matter so much to heartâ¦.
Let me recap. Last October I discovered that Social Workers had run a survey (that no one else knew about, naturally!) asking how many social workers would welcome the âpower of entryâ to every home in the land â not just the homes of those with diminished mental capacity. Every home. To âgive you health adviceâ. â âPut that crisp down now!â
Unsurprisingly, when you ask a group of people attracted to a job where they hold control over other peopleâs lives â they voted overwhelmingly to be given such a power. You donât say!
Regrettably for them, we now have a government which clutches to its bosom the entrails of a belief in Libertarian principles. Not many, itâs true. But just sufficient to allow them to at least âaskâ the general public what they thought of the idea. In theory. They just didnât tell anyone they were doing so, so the general public had no idea that they had a voice on the matter, still less that such a power was proposed. When this came to my attention, there was just seven days left in which to respond to the âconsultationâ.
I asked you to respond to the questionnaire, and retweet the post to anyone you thought might also be interested in responding. This you did in gratifying numbers.
Come May 2013, and the results of the consultation were known. The government was not minded to give social workers such a power, in particular:
We believe it is highly significant that members of the public were far more strongly against the proposal compared to health and social care professionals […] it is clear that some people perceive themselves at greater risk of unwarranted intervention by social workers than of abuse in their home.
Wahay! Loud cheers in Raccoon Towers!
However, today, quite the most offensive piece of authoritarian manipulation has come to light. My attention has been drawn to this âfiskingâ of the views of the general public.
âElder Abuseâ has taken the trouble of âanalysingâ the responses from the general public â that means you! They have listed the reasons why your views should not have been allowed to sway the government. They pose the question âdid these people put forward cogent, reasoned arguments that were to the point and relevant to the questioned askedâ and they have come to the conclusion that the answer is âNoâ.
They have taken the trouble of publishing many of your responses to the consultation:
And great delight in pointing out that some of you had made minor spelling errorsâ¦
At least one of you had made reference to âNaziâsâ.
At least one of you had made reference to social workers taking children into care through the âsecretâ family courts.
They are deeply offended that the response (116) quoted by the Health Minister was not quoted in full, which would have included the phrase âStalin used article 58 of Leninâs Criminal Code to justify his Stasiâs invasion of people homesâ.
For the above reasons they have concluded that:and therefore your views should not have been given weightâ¦.
They have applied no such analysis to the views of the original social workers who wanted these powers. They could have been riddled with spelling mistakes, and made reference to Eugenics for all we know!
It is probably a tad late to respond to garyfitzgerald@elderabuse.org.uk who is responsible for this disgraceful disparaging of the views of the general public â but it is not too late to answer Mithran Samuel at Community Care who poses the disingenuous question âDid anti-social worker sentiment scupper powers of entry in adult protection casesâ without disclosing that such a power already exists – what social workers were asking for now was to have the power without the oversight of the courts â an automatic right of entry.
Perhaps Mithran Samuel has âmisunderstood what was proposedâ?
Get over there and tell him what you think â perhaps by oversight, the site appears to be hosting negative comments for onceâ¦..
Go on â NOW!
and re-tweet if you would be so kind.
August 17, 2013 at 22:13
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Thank you for the latest alert, Anna. Iâve added my polite tuppence-worth
to the Community Care site (itâs presently âawaiting moderationâ).
According to that siteâs reporting, I was at fault for not divulging my age
when responding to the original consultation document: âthe public voices that
shouted loudest in the consultation response do not appear to be those of
older ⦠people who may be affected by such a powerâ. What is that conclusion
based on? Maybe I missed it, but I donât recollect that one had to state oneâs
age when submitting a response?
After all weâve learned of late about unwarranted state intrusion into our
private lives, it surely behoves us to speak up whenever we get the
opportunity. And I confess that, without someone like yourself keeping a
finger on the pulse, I could be missing some of those opportunities!
August 17, 2013 at 19:50
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My aim is to die without ever coming to the attention of the SS, in fact I
think if the whole lot vanished tomorrow we would be no worse off, maybe even
better.
August 17, 2013 at 11:16
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Itâs the old foot in the door approach. First, itâll be the âelderlyâ and
the âvunerableâ. Next, the remit is expanded to include entry to look for
signs of tobacco or alcohol use in the presence of âchildren*â, later perhaps,
to monitor our diets and check on the allowed reading materials available in
the home. Anarchistâs cookbook anyone?
People will be detailed for not having working smoke alarms, and not
storing so-called dangerous substances out of harms way (âLook, you canât have
that sharp knife in the kitchen drawer. It has to be in a child-proof cabinet
out of reach.â) My son tells me that you arenât allowed to take your baby out
of the local maternity hospital unless you can show that your car has the
approved baby seats fitted. I suppose next we will have to have our houses
inspected by these interfering <> to make sure that we all live in
accordance with their over-reaching H&S mania.
* the definition of children also being expanded to encompass everyone up
to the age of about 25. Which will probably be about right the way the current
young generation are being infantalised.
August 17, 2013 at 09:43
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Hereâs my haâpennyworth, currently âawaiting moderationâ:
Working from first principles, it is simply bizarre that anyone should
claim a right to enter anyone elseâs house without judicial oversight or in
the absence of some emergency â someone trapped in a house fire, for example,
and even there you do so at your own legal risk. I was going to quote here
Pittâs dictum that âThe poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the
forces of the crown. It may be frail â its roof may shake â the wind may blow
through it â the storm may enter â the rain may enter â but the King of
England cannot enter.â Thatâs the point.
No doubt the Jehovahâs Witnesses, Scientologists, door-to-door
encyclopaedia salesmen, anti-racism campaigners, lesbian birdwatchers, and all
the rest of the various prod-noses and interlopers of the modern state would
like to come into my house, and can come up with sad stories about Uncle Tom
Cobleigh who was proselytized to by an evangelical to justify their
interference. No. We start from first principles and stand by them.
In any case, when one reads of the manifest failures of social services â
the absurd Marietta Higgs and her weird âanal dilation testâ, âritual satanic
abuseâ, and the sad litany of murdered children â Victoria Climbié (the worst
child abuse injuries the pathologist had ever seen), Baby P (a broken back was
overlooked), and Daniel Pelka (described as a living skeleton or a Belsen
victim) â one canât help thinking that giving yet more powers to such
unreformed incompetents would simply increase the scale and scope of disasters
that they would be able to inflict.
August 17, 2013 at 09:29
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Dunstanâ¦.âThe only thing that matters is what the legislation
allowsââ¦..Time and time again, in recent years, laws are stretched to include
people who have tried to deal with situations and found themselves arrested.
The triumphant scalliwags have called the police and told fibs about what
happened. A policewoman recently put a âspit hoodâ on a perfectly respectable
woman, who had lost her temper, due to lies told to police about her by
parents of children sounding a car horn persistentlyâ¦â¦she had asked the
parents to put a stop to it. Spit Hood only to be used in specific circs. The
policewoman had not studied her rules properly. The woman was publicly
humiliated. So social workers could be enabled to enter a house on suspicion
based on stereotypical assumptions . At one case conference someone tried to
finger the step father for the pregnancy of an underage school girl. We all
knew that she had been pulled into a car by a group of youths who had left
school and were hanging about in the next term time. She was deeply disturbed,
but the end result OK . We all concentrated on getting her to mother her baby
well. She had just lost her mum due to a fast moving cancer too. Now a happy
lady in her thirties. What would be the outcome if stereotypical assumption
followed up by an uninvited visit from clipboarded social workers? No thank
you.
August 17, 2013 at 09:26
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I note that highly unusually my posts wwere not deleted by âCommunity
Careâsâ Samuel Mithram, as has always been the case before. That they have
allowed the âdiscordant viewâ has puzzled me, until I realised that âgaryâ who
was posting to argue the case to ignore the consultation responses was likely
no other than Gary Fitzgerald of Action on Elder Abuse. So my cynicism is that
all of us who wanted to show them that we are not without proper views on
these proposed âpowers of entryâ may well have been used to âgain greater
familiarity with the enemyâ. It may help Gary to put forward more warped
argumentsâ¦
From my experience of the seccret SS, (and I do not apologise for this
acronym after all a judge used the word Stalinist in one case), the conspiracy
theiry should never be discounted in the times when many public servants are
merely self promoting careerists without morality to take personal
responsibility.
August 17, 2013 at 08:19
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So Anna, what is the Liverpool Care Pathway, if it isnât state sponsored
âelder abuseâ⦠Whatever the fuck that is sâposed to mean?
I have a friend whose father was a victim of the Nicholson bloke in North
Staffordshire⦠Went in for an âassessmentâ came out in a box, he was riddled
with C Dif., nothing to do with these oh so responsible dudes⦠Nothing at
all.
I hate communists/communitarians, in the 1980â²s they realised that nobody
was ever going to vote for them, so they applied for jobs inside the
government institutions, and like Clostridium difficile itself, it has eaten
away at the very structure of our civilisation. It is difficult to see how we
can overcome it.
Never mind⦠At least we now know that the children are really importantâ¦
Think of the children!
August 17, 2013 at 06:57
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XX Get over there and tell him what you think XX
Hmm Temptingâ¦â¦ But I feel, if I said what I think, I may get arrested.
And if THAT is not a comentary on âthis day and ageâ, what IS?
August 16, 2013 at 19:44
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I stuck in my 2p, see if it gets past moderation.
It can be summarised as the fact that we donât trust them because they hide
behind a veil of secrecy and if they want to improve matters, we need to be
trusted with explanations and evidence. Then we might understand the question
that we so clearly do not at present.
August 16, 2013 at 17:00
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Some comments have now appeared on Mr Samuelâs blog post.
The comment from âPeterâ concerning his father held hostage for three years
by a cynical and manipulative âcarerâ has received several responses asking
him what he was doing for those years. His replies (all well composed and
correctly spelled, which suggests a fair degree of intelligence) claim that he
visited his father every day, and his fatherâs face lit up when he saw Peter,
but he did not speak to his father because he was denied access by the
âcarerâ. In other comments, Peter shows a good working knowledge of the law as
it applies to social work.
why would a reasonably intelligent man visit his father every day for three
years, wave to him through the window, but not attempt to talk to him? For
three years?
Something about Peterâs comments do not add up. One wonders if someone is
being a little less than honest.
August 16, 2013 at 16:25
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Threw in my 2pw, this comment is awaiting moderation on his site:
Correct me if I am wrong*
Social Worker do indeed have the power to enter homes already:
1. By
asking nicely, or
2. By applying for that power to do so.
The former
should generally be sufficient. Where this is insufficient then they can rely
on the latter.
What the consultation was asking about was whether Social Workers need not
bother with the latter i.e should Social Workers have an automatic right of
entry into a home?
It matters not one whit how this is dressed up: My home is MY home; I want
to enjoy my dotage with my wife after the kids have left without the fear that
the system in place in 20 years from now has the right to send âSocial
Workersâ (in 20 years the same function may have a different name) into my
home without the Courts having any oversight.
Perhaps the resistance to these proposals stems from the fear of the âthin
end of the wedgeâ; that autonomous, unaccountable groups can clandestinely
make decisions about how I should be conducting my affairs within my home and
come into my house to force me to make those changes. St Augustine had a
similar idea when he decreed that the Original Sin was sex â the Church then
had power over couples in their beds â granted an oversimplification but the
fundamentals prevail, even today.
If you say that I donât understand the issues, then you are only further
making my case in my mind. I am capable of understanding â I also recognise
the longer term implications to individuals and society. My home would no
longer be mine â if a social worker has powers of entry WITHOUT oversight by
the judiciary. Why should I not resist this?
The issues that matter to me are the ones I raise here; if you donât think
they matter, again, you make my case for me.
The AEA article doesnât seem to have said much about the views of the
original social workers, nor mocked their stance/grammar/nomenclature, I
wonder, if in light of this, you feel that their view is balanced or
unbalanced?
*http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2012/253.html
August 16, 2013 at 18:11
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In case they decide to remove differing opinion âGaryâ responded (by
calmly explaining that a JP is enough oversight):
I will have to correct you. Social Workers do not have the power to enter
someoneâs home in the circumstances being addressed by these proposals. Nor
was the consultation about an automatic right of a social worker to have
access, it also asked about safeguards such as the need for a warrant from a
circuit judge.
There is a reasonable concern about the thin end of the wedge, and that
does indeed need to be addressed. But the answer cannot be to throw the baby
out with the bath water and ignore the needs of vulnerable people who are
being imprisoned by abusers.
If a Social Worker had power of entry without oversight by the judiciary
we should all be concerned and resist it. But that is not what is being
proposed. A social Workers suspicions would not be enough, they would have
to convince a JP. They would have to have tried every other reasonable means
first, and they would have to demonstrate that the situation would not be
made worse by such access. And they could only enter accompanied by a police
officer.
My reply:
Thank you for the correction Gary.
Social workers DO have the power to enter peopleâs homes, against their
will, provided they are granted permission from a Judge (I believe an
experienced Judge too).
A Justice of the Peace lacks such experience. There have been cases
historically where Social Services (yes, it would be unfair and inflammatory
to shorten this to the SS) have torn families apart because they donât fit
into the mold set by Social Services. The most chilling story I am aware of
is that of Steven Neary
https://www.facebook.com/groups/134345726596848/
It took a judge to sort that mess out.
http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/neary-judgment-09062011.pdf
The principles at stake here are about oversight by an experienced judge
BEFORE families are torn apart; to ensure that a Social Services department
must absolutely be held accountable for their actions and sufficient
experience wielded to skewer embellished cases that an inexperienced JP may
pass through. Authority must go hand in hand with Responsibility: checks and
balances that protect those you have authority over is essential. One
without the other creates a most unequal society.
Doubtless a great deal of good intent lies behind the AEA article,
supporting Social workers cases. The intent behind the original consultation
was to create a legislative framework to minimise delays in court. The
intent behind the Offside rule was to prevent Goal-hanging â the result was
the Offside Trap.
Currently the legislation grants me some protections in the form an
experienced judge looking over the case against me (a case I might know
nothing about so may not be able to refute) before the Social Services can
enter my home without my consent.
What is being put forward is a dilution of MY protection.
Social Services have the right to enter homes already. They have to do so
with the scrutiny of experience, why dilute that experience?
August 16, 2013 at 13:58
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I think Chris Retros conclusions may well be near to what is going on.
There seems an odd gap for somewhat younger pop persons to be mugged in this
way. As I remarked before. There are those out there who think they can go
after these funds when the person is dead and cheat charities out of
legitimate proceeds. Then the attitude that some very oldies have enjoyed lots
of money long enough, will soon be dead soon anyway, so grab it while you can.
I donât think my post on the link Anna provided has been accepted either.
Never mind.
August 16, 2013 at 14:08
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@Mizz Mildred
But the money isnât going to the âgovernmentâ. The
government have no money to pay the care homes but they are compelled to pay
for the care of the elderly in those care homes, so they are taking the
money off people as you say, but it is only because they cannot afford to
keep the promises they have made of âcradle to graveâ socialism.
I suspect the care homes are cranking up the fees in just the same way
that DSS rental arrangements allow landlords to rack up the local rents of
flats etc. and in the past Company cars allowed garages to ratchet up the
costs of car servicing. There is a racket going on but I think the
governments have made themselves into the patsy, rather than being the
villain of the piece.
August 16, 2013 at 13:57
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Thereâs a huge logic breakdown here:
http://www.elderabuse.org.uk/Mainpages/Aboutus/aboutus_campaigns.html
In one line it says,
The majority of older victims of abuse live in
their own homes, with a lesser number living in care homes or in
hospital.
but then it says,
40% of safeguarding referrals are about
people living in their own home
??
which means 60% â THE MAJORITY â are living in care homes or in
hospital
??
These people are either liars, or stupid, or just stupid liars.
August 16, 2013 at 13:09
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Just checked â my comment has been kicked out; how about yours?
Donât you just love these guardians of free speech?
I have little doubt Mithran Samuel will proclaim himself a believer in free
speech, butâ¦
Dang! I must try to control my cynicism!
August 16, 2013 at 13:21
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Mine disappeared last night, but reappeared this morning with two other
âopposing commentsâ.
I did reply to Peter in the same vein as others here but with more
âresearch typeâ comments, as he is cleary not someone who conducts research,
(ones educatiuon and training can come in useful other than in employment),
but these are âoff siteâ so I guess they wanted to âshout downâ the non
Community Care/ Pro Social Work Powers views publicly for their readers to
gloat. But I may be wrong..
August 16, 2013 at 22:26
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And I have to eat my own words. My comment did disappear, but has since
been exposed to public view. Perhaps I may have been too hasty in my
judgement, and have to admit that we are all judging Peter on the basis of
very limited information.
August
16, 2013 at 12:45
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Have left a comment under that article â in case it isnât allowed here it
is:
What a strangely authoritarian world weâre in! Social workers already have
the power to apply to the court for permission to enter a home where there are
concerns about safeguarding â whether adults or children. That is how we know
about the very small number of cases where serious âelder abuseâ has
occurred.
What is being demanded here is the power to walk into anyoneâs home, for
any reason that the social worker decides and âinterveneâ. Now I appreciate
that most social workers are good, kind people who only have the interests of
the âclientâ at heart but the evidence I have seen from nearly 20 years as a
local councillor and from too many court cases involving vulnerable adults
suggests that social workers are not all saintly Mother Theresa types.
It is quite simply wrong to grant this power to social workers because the
evidence of current social work behaviour tells us that the power will be
abused.
– See more at: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/adult-care-blog/2013/08/minister-urged-to-rethink-rejection-of-safeguarding-power-of-entry-for-social-workers/#comment-2650
August 17, 2013 at 21:21
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There is only one minor point in your post with which I would take issue:
âsaintly Mother Theresaâ. I donât think she was as saintly as portrayed.
August 16, 2013 at 12:44
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The ultimate aims of this â and. in reality, other things such as the Jimmy
Savile asset-stripping exercise and create the precedent to pursue other
elderly individuals â is completely transparent.
In a bankrupt society
(fiscally as well as morally) the job of âthe new recruitsâ (degree-toting
simpletons) is to ensure the State (and Agents of the State â courts,
solicitors, police, social services etc) has direct access to the assets of
those old enough to still have any. Like the prevention of, for instance,
Jimmy Savileâs estate being divided up between several genuine charities of
his own choice and instead being given to some wanton scum, more wanton scum
(Solicitors like Liz Dux) and the state, or Stuart Hallâs assets meeting the
same fate â the aim is to prevent the assets (houses etc) going to families or
trusts that donât already exist and into the bankrupt system instead.
This
particular Gravy Train will only be moving for 20/30 years or so anyway â most
people are mortgaged up to the hilt, so much so they will never actually own
their property and are caught in the hamster wheel of consumerism. Which means
it is important to plunder what is out there ASAP.
August 16, 2013 at 12:52
August 16, 2013 at 12:56
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Theyâre already doing that with QE and low interest rates. Checked how
much your savings are earning, recently? 0.5% gross, with inflation running
at 3.5%?
Youâre being slowly robbed.
August 16, 2013 at 14:33
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And we are all on benefitsâ¦whether itâs working tax credits, child
benefits, housing benefit, council tax benefitâ¦it seems we are all on
benefits now. To what end? To ensure that we are dependent upon the
state?
August 16, 2013 at 18:06
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Not all of us Suspicious. Not me, until January when I gets me state
pension!
August 17, 2013 at
11:11
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charlotte
I am not particularly dependent on the state (unlike parents). But
if the NHS was not free, with even my meds costing nothing now and
with free travel withn a certain zoning? I am not sure there is not a
form of dependency we do not acknowledge.
Admittedly, unlike my friends and contempories I do not think
abolishing free travel for the younger pensioner is wrong, most that I
know have enough resources but are just tight fisted, (we were luckier
than the younger generation of today). But then why do I pay taxes for
those with âtheir noses in the troughâ to take advantage of my hard
earned dosh? I unlike my contempories do resort to private medical
consultations- because then only can I choose the most competent
clinician from proper research.
But most are not like me and are state dependent wether through
design, wanting to keep their assests for numbers of yearly, sometimes
long haul trips, or because they genuinely have to make difficult or
unpleasant choices about necessary expenditure. This does allow the
state to gain more control over our lives in modern times.
Many very much older vulnerable people also have found the state
can take control not just of their lives but hard earned resources. So
we are in a double bind with social services intrusions- they will
spend our money for us unless we put a stop to this form of abuse, no
worse than the ones they keep wanting to protect us from. Let them
into your home at your own peril.
August 16, 2013 at 12:18
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Also, I had to add my own tuppence-worth to Peter complaining about a
âcarerâ corralling his father for 3 years; it seems obvious that in that time,
Peter had made no contact with his own father, and it makes me wonder why
Peter regrets it now.
Maybe I am getting too cynicalâ¦.
August 16, 2013 at 12:11
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I have become inherently suspicious of anything that has the word
âcommunityâ in its title; it invariably turns out to mean ânannying
fussbucketâ.
BTW, I suspect JuliaM is right; having visited the site, there are only
three responses active.
August 16, 2013 at 12:32
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I have just visited the site and left a comment. It is âawaiting
moderationâ .. so I will wait and see â¦â¦ hmm
August 19, 2013 at 12:21
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Ditto. I was careful not to swear, mind.
August 16, 2013 at 12:05
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It illustrates that âpublic opinionâ is only useful to any Authority when
it supports their proposal.
Thumbs Up!
I was reading the third comment and found it utterly baffling. Some bloke
is saying his mother was âbled dryâ by a carer over three years. He says
access by the Soasch could have saved her [him?]â¦â¦. What the heck was HE doing
for thoses three years? Didnât he ever visit his mum? People really need to
take a look at themselves instead of endlessly thinking there is some magic
State solution to their woes and sadnesses.
August
16, 2013 at 12:23
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âWhat the heck was HE doing for thoses three years? Didnât he ever
visit his mum?â
What?!? Thatâs the job of the State!
August 16, 2013 at 12:53
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I have just left a comment replying to âPeterâ, politely asking him what
he was doing for the three years his father was âlocked in a backroom having
his bank account bled dryâ¦â. I confidently expect the comment to be
removed.
August 16, 2013 at 11:52
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A stupid argument is a stupid argument.
According to your previous article:
âThis is about having the right to
forcibly enter your home even though they have no reason to believe that you
are mentally ill, the victim of violence, the victim of fraud, the victim of
domestic violence, that there is a child at risk there, or any of the other
above categories. They donât want to have to show evidence to a judge, they
want to be able to act on instinct alone.â
According to the Elder Abuse pdf:
âThis briefing paper considers a power
of access for confidential interview where a Third Party is denying contact
with an adult who is reasonably believed to be experiencing abuse.â
It
further states:
âThe amendment would authorise a power of access for
confidential interview where:
⢠there is reasonable cause to suspect a
person is at risk of abuse or neglect;
⢠access is not available through
any other means;
⢠âreasonable causeâ is tested via application to a
justice of the peace; and
⢠exercising the power will not result in the
person being at greater risk of abuse or neglectâ
It would appear that your understanding of the proposed legislation is
different to that of Elder Abuse. I suspect you have exaggerated what this
legislation will do. Is it the case that the legislation will give ââpower of
entryâ to every home in the land â not just the homes of those with diminished
mental capacity. Every home. To âgive you health adviceââ? I venture to say
that it will not.
August 16, 2013 at 12:23
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Duncan Disorderly, Anna is not completely off the mark, even when she
uses satire as example.
It will give power of entry to anyresidence of an aged elder not lacking
mental capacity because social worker wishes to believe, or does believe,
that the elder is being influenced, (they use the terms unduly influenced /
coerced but they mean influenced- as social worker interpretations of
serious harm are inconsistent), by someone e.g. by their adult children to
give them money / transfer the house etc. or is being subject to abuse /
neglect. The notion is that people are stopped from accessing the elder so
their needs to be a solution to remedy. Very few are so isolated that thy
never see doctor, nurse, neighbour or make any other visits outside the
home, so are out of view completely, without privacy of a telephone they can
access when alone..
The power does allow for social work interpretations of not abnormal
child parent relationships, which may be normal to the family.
The legal case that Anna wrote about is pertinent. A son, who appeared to
be shown to have a negative relationship with the father, but not mother,
was deemed to hold undue influence when apparently dicussing the transfer of
their property to him. It would not have been in the local authorityâs
interests for this to occur because they use it as collateral for payment of
care services they decide you need- e.g. care homes.
I can assure from personal experience social services/ local authority
staff do frequently ignore the relevant laws to do what they want and social
workers do harm incapacitiated adults, and also have the potential too to
harm / distress capacitated ones through unwarranted interventions, through
the undue coercion / control they themselves exert- not all which is lawful.
They do ignore consent issues with adults.
In child protecton they have started to take away obese children from
their parents as they see this as a form of child abuse. Not everyone would
agree; obesity in our times is a problem of poor eating hbits in often food
insecure homes.
Giving powers to enter the homes of capacitated people on
mere suspicion (this is all that is needed, despite what Action on Elder
Abuse try to say), is likely to give social workers determined to take
control to start intefereing more broadly- under the guise of risks to /
safeguarding of the elder.
All is not as it appears to you who have no first hand experience. I
would not want social workers to âsave meâ. I want to know how to save
myself if I still have the marbles to do so.
August 16, 2013 at 12:24
August 16,
2013 at 11:21
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ââ¦Mithran Samuel at Community Care â¦â
Aha! A long-neglected rich seam of asshattery, that one (http://thylacosmilus.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/right-wing-bloggers-oooh-scary.html).
Thanks for reminding me about themâ¦
And yes, as soon as Mithran realises whatâs happening, the comments will be
pulled, Iâve no doubt.
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