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  1. from the knowledge i have, people have just become too exhausted and distressed and do not know where or how to speak out any more and certainly fear the repercussions if they do...
  2. How can you reassure us that SCC runs a very tight ship with little room for error? That is just “words” and is simply not the case! Having said that, I hope your other half is doing fantastic work and is lucky enough to be involved somewhere that does have good practice. SCC would certainly like the general public to believe that the more vulnerable members of our society are safe in their hands but it’s not true. A care home for people with learning disabilities was closed down in recent months in Sheffield after the CQC had rated it inadequate since 2014 (for very good reason!). It had not even had a registered manager since 2011! It is a basic condition of a care home to be registered with the CQC and have a registered manager. That is not Sheffield running a tight ship! Sheffield do not attempt to listen to real stories from real family carers and assume that a company saying they have received no complaints is a company that has received no complaints! And Staunton is correct about individuals who live in their own homes (which includes living in homes that have deregistered and given their residents a tenancy of their own bedroom). The CQC can’t inspect where they live. They go to the support provider’s main office and ask the managers to fill in self-assessment forms. They might even ask to speak with a client….or two. Someone talkative and cheerful might get presented to chat to them. They will say everything is great, possibly because someone is showing an interest in them at that moment in time. But do the clients or families who complain and/or families of clients who can not speak for themselves ever get that call? No. The CQC only generally do bad inspection reports when the evidence is building up so much from random and rare sources - eg exposure on TV or there are too many news stories about for example the number of patients in a hospital resorting to drinking out of vases of flowers so as not to die of thirst - that they are best to look like they were challenging the service all along. Things only hit TV by lots of work, lots of luck and if the bad stuff is juicy enough. It's rare. But absolutety loads of bad stuff goes on under the radar that is mundane and ordinary and complex but lifelong and crap, but won’t make an exciting show on telly. The Sara Ryans and Mark Nearys of this world that manage to get their stories out there are very rare indeed and usually suffer massively along the way. Anyway, the CQC website is clear that "If you've experienced or seen poor care, you have a right to feed back or complain to the organisation that provided or paid for the care. We can’t make these complaints for you or take them up on your behalf. That may seem confusing but it's because we don't have powers to investigate or resolve them." The CQC's toothless light touch methods are not well understood. We just assume they are watching over our care system, keeping us safe. They are not. They have been chaotic and ineffective from their beginnings. They have lied to parliament! Winterbourne was a huge media case. Panorama exposed the terrible abuse of adults with learning disabilities. The CQC did nothing to expose it. They admitted they had ignored a whistleblower. There are many examples of people with learning disabilities and their families being treated terribly. You’ll not hear many of the examples as lots of people simply have no voice. Many family carers dare not speak out for fear of repurcussions and for fear of upsetting frontline workers who invariably cop for any of the flack when it is not them but resources and good robust fair management supervision and support that is lacking. Those who do speak up for themselves or have family to speak up for them will be stonewalled and isolated by management. Sheffield has a tight ship on covering up and putting fear in families who rely on them for support.
  3. People unfortunately can find themselves having dealings with Excel when they park on their own land or when they park on the land for which they share a lease with neighbours when they have done absolutely nothing wrong, not only within the eyes of the law but also within the rules agreed by the landowner.....
  4. but isn't it the Tories that most passionately want to sell off the NHS to make profits for big business corporations and to destroy the welfare state and to abandon vulnerable people?
  5. that post has made me laugh! although don't forget that the tories you mention want us to vote NO, which seems to me a perfectly good reason to vote YES...
  6. I wasn't one of the protesters but i am willing to listen and learn from protestors, who are often caring individuals, willing to give up valuable time to make others aware of injustices and unfairness. Since learning from recent protests, i NEVER shop at Boots, Tesco, Marks and Spencer, Vodaphone etc. I still make mistakes and still line the pockets of greedy corporations...but raising awareness and becoming aware is important. Neoliberalism and capitalism really are huge destructive forces in the world. Thank you tonestapler for looking out for me when i have given nothing in return.. A protestor, maybe you, was still there after 12noon and i took a leaflet.
  7. when you are old and frail, i will be genuinely very happy to have paid taxes towards the service, and living wage of the carer, to help to feed, wash and support you to live as healthy and happy a life as possible. i suspect that carer won't be generating much income. That's fine by me.......as long as i don't have to line the pockets of some private company along the way.
  8. who said i'm happy that they should drive a Mecedes and live in a half million pound house? you lost me.
  9. a decent living wage that takes account of skills,training, hours worked, levels of responsibility..........., taxed fairly.
  10. ChrisT70 is making lots of sense. Some private companies create outrageous profits at the expense of their customers, workforce and the public. But please also be wary of companies that claim to be "not for profit" which still may have executives who are being paid obscene amounts of money.
  11. "do the same for less money" is the problem. can we really measure what the National Health Service does. so the NHS do lots of preventitive work and prevent 10 people going into hospital. another person does go into hospital for some treatment and the team pick up a related but separate condition and treat that too. RESULT = ONE HOSPITAL DISCHARGE, HEALTHY PERSON. so private company does no preventitive work, 11 go into hospital, all treated, 10 discharged healthy and 1 discharged with underlying undiagnosed condition. RESULT = 11 HOSPITAL DISCHARGES, ALL HEALTHY AS FAR AS WE KNOW. my rambling point....you can not measure health care, child protection, personal care like manufacturing cars or selling tins of beans. so back to your first question...how long is a piece of string?
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