The council are still deciding, unilaterally, when my sons and I meet for outside contact.
They allow me to go out with Eliot, who's 23, for 2 hours a week, bowling/shopping/exploring the rural environment.
Last week was meant to be shopping, but the staff felt that it was inappropriate since it had been raining in the morning. As we sat in the car, the two of them pointed to moisure on the outside of the windshield, and said 'It's raining", but it wasn't. When I said that the rota said "shopping" I was told that I wasn't thinking of Eliot.
We drove to a trampoline centre, which Eliot "loves". He didn't get on a trampoline. We had coffees. We left.
If my mats are right, the two hours came to:
Wages for staff 2x£15x2 hours= £60. (I'm guessing).
Trampoline centre=£20.
Coffees for staff+£4.00
Petrol+£5.00
A total of £89.
I was told that by qyestioning their decision to abort the shopping, I was putting contact at risk.
Eliot always has two carers with him when he's out because he used to pinch people sometimes when he was angry/upset. He hasn't done it for a year or two. I don't count in these circumstances although he's at home with me three times a week, so there are three adults walking round the precinct with him, sipping coffee, bowling...
I've just talked to one of the two deputy-manageresses (for a two-man residence!), who tells me that the risk-assessment for this year was recently carried out by the staff themselves, and it was though inappropriate to involve Eliot's psychologist because "she doesn't go out with him, does she John?". Nor was I invited. They've decided that it's still necessary for them to 'double up'. This means that Eliot is stuck in the bungalow two days a week.
Anyone else think this stinks?
They allow me to go out with Eliot, who's 23, for 2 hours a week, bowling/shopping/exploring the rural environment.
Last week was meant to be shopping, but the staff felt that it was inappropriate since it had been raining in the morning. As we sat in the car, the two of them pointed to moisure on the outside of the windshield, and said 'It's raining", but it wasn't. When I said that the rota said "shopping" I was told that I wasn't thinking of Eliot.
We drove to a trampoline centre, which Eliot "loves". He didn't get on a trampoline. We had coffees. We left.
If my mats are right, the two hours came to:
Wages for staff 2x£15x2 hours= £60. (I'm guessing).
Trampoline centre=£20.
Coffees for staff+£4.00
Petrol+£5.00
A total of £89.
I was told that by qyestioning their decision to abort the shopping, I was putting contact at risk.
Eliot always has two carers with him when he's out because he used to pinch people sometimes when he was angry/upset. He hasn't done it for a year or two. I don't count in these circumstances although he's at home with me three times a week, so there are three adults walking round the precinct with him, sipping coffee, bowling...
I've just talked to one of the two deputy-manageresses (for a two-man residence!), who tells me that the risk-assessment for this year was recently carried out by the staff themselves, and it was though inappropriate to involve Eliot's psychologist because "she doesn't go out with him, does she John?". Nor was I invited. They've decided that it's still necessary for them to 'double up'. This means that Eliot is stuck in the bungalow two days a week.
Anyone else think this stinks?