About two weeks ago, my eldest son (21) moved from the residential accommodation where he has lived for over three years. I have been involved in some of the planning and understood that he would move to supported flats, run by the same care company that supplied his residential accommodation, and he would receive visits from support staff twice a day (morning and evening) and would be able to access the groups that he has found therapeutic which were run at his old residential home.
However, he has told me that he sees a support worker perhaps two or three times a week, and never at weekends and that he is not allowed back to his old accommodation for groups he found useful due to Coronavirus restrictions (I assume he is now classed as a separate household or something). He has also had no financial assessment, so it is unclear how his support is being financed. I opted to pay the component he was required to pay during his residential placement, but I have contacted the LA to inform them of his move and this is when I learnt that the financial assessment has not been undertaken.
My son has had help to fill in housing benefit forms and with the initial move. However, I have had to negotiate a request to repair a faulty window frame. I still have not seen the flat into which he has moved, and my son has told me that visitors are discouraged due to Corona restrictions. However, I am going to visit this week.
There is a review arranged via Skype in early November and I have contact details for the manager of the supported living and my son's social worker. I do not know whether it is too early to raise concerns, or if, indeed, my concerns about the reduction in support can be explained by the necessary restrictions of the pandemic. However, I am very uneasy.
I had been happy with my son's care in his residential placement, but now it seems like he has been left with very little support and very very little to occupy himself during the day.
Should I start raising concerns now (perhaps after I have seen the flat) or should I wait until the formal review in November?
However, he has told me that he sees a support worker perhaps two or three times a week, and never at weekends and that he is not allowed back to his old accommodation for groups he found useful due to Coronavirus restrictions (I assume he is now classed as a separate household or something). He has also had no financial assessment, so it is unclear how his support is being financed. I opted to pay the component he was required to pay during his residential placement, but I have contacted the LA to inform them of his move and this is when I learnt that the financial assessment has not been undertaken.
My son has had help to fill in housing benefit forms and with the initial move. However, I have had to negotiate a request to repair a faulty window frame. I still have not seen the flat into which he has moved, and my son has told me that visitors are discouraged due to Corona restrictions. However, I am going to visit this week.
There is a review arranged via Skype in early November and I have contact details for the manager of the supported living and my son's social worker. I do not know whether it is too early to raise concerns, or if, indeed, my concerns about the reduction in support can be explained by the necessary restrictions of the pandemic. However, I am very uneasy.
I had been happy with my son's care in his residential placement, but now it seems like he has been left with very little support and very very little to occupy himself during the day.
Should I start raising concerns now (perhaps after I have seen the flat) or should I wait until the formal review in November?