Anger as Rishi Sunak caves in to Tory rebel demands to ignore court rulings – Mirror Online

Pity Rishi doesn’t also cave into demands from carers and persons in need of social care for social care to be sufficiently funded, thereby not only providing funding for social care but also helping the crisis in the NHS, which will never be solved while social care is not fully funded, the life of both social care and the NHS is in his hands and without supporting both, neither will survive.

Will he listen, I doubt, for yet no government has done so and I feel no government will?

So, goodbye to social care and the NHS and with that the lives of many.

Source: Anger as Rishi Sunak caves in to Tory rebel demands to ignore court rulings – Mirror Online

DfE provides 20% of funding urged by care review in response – Community Care

Funding of £200 million, over 2 year, while welcome is far too little, for even £200 million in one year would so too little.

While the review recommended £2.6bn by the end of 2026-27, iI would say it is required so much sooner, in fact immediately as there has already been very little funding, if any at all.

The crisis is so extensive which the DoE is failing to recognise, but is it by ignorance or by design, for do they really care.

In fact does anyone in this Government care about anything except their own lives.

 

Source: DfE provides 20% of funding urged by care review in response – Community Care

DfE merges schools and children’s social care responsibilities under new minister – Community Care

This was evident when the Ministries of health and social care were, apparently put into one Ministry, but to all purposes they are still separated in many areas and to many degrees.

Social Care is still the poor relation to health, even though the inter-dependency is paramount. As one can’t exist without the other as insufficiencies in social care greatly add to the problems within health.

This will be so for education and childrens social care, both at local and national levels At local levels more intergration could well be occurring but not seen to be at National levels, which is so evident with health and social care.

Also, there needs to be greater involvement in both Children’s and adults social  care.

 

Source: DfE merges schools and children’s social care responsibilities under new minister – Community Care

Ofsted raises concerns over use of restraints on pupils in special needs school | Special educational needs | The Guardian

Restraints should always be a last resort, but feel in some areas they are the first and if used they should be used exceedingly to a minimum and ideally not at all. I believe, if restraints are used it is a sign of failure to understand the individual concerned, for behaviours is just another form of expression, when other forms have not been understood or simply ignored.

It appears, over the years, much distruptions have occurred within the schools management and who has overall management of the school. This would have a bearing on how the pupils feel about the school and especially the routines they have come to understand and accept.

With learning disabilities and, especially autism routine is paramount in the lives of the children concerned and teachers, support assistants and the schools management have to take this on board and ensure no chaanges in routines occur and if they do they are kept to the extreme minimum.

Yes, safety, expressly the child concerned and the fellow pupils and staff need to be considered and therefore extensive risk assessments need to have been done, both on a general basis and for each individual pupil.

All training is extremely important and should be done as a matter of urgency, with regular updates.

In all areas the pupils and their families should be an intergral part of the process as the team working is not restrricted to those employed in the school, for pupils and their families should also be equal members of the team and never, never ever discounted.

 

Source: Ofsted raises concerns over use of restraints on pupils in special needs school | Special educational needs | The Guardian

LAs: SEND failings are everyone’s fault but ours and it’s too easy to get an EHCP – Special Needs Jungle

Thank you SNJ, not only for this article, but for your expert analysis.

Yes, funding or the complete lack of it is a major, as it is in all aspects of special Needs Education and throughout the whole of social care. So here the Government and many previous governments are at fault.

But lack of funding does, and should not result in failing to follow legislation, which is why parents go to tribunals. Local Authorities, (LAs) are total at fault as funding should have no relation to what is required, but unfortunately it is the primary basis behind LAs thinking.

The results from tribunals should be looked on a learning for LAs to do better and not find ways to make no change.

Caring is stressful enough, so these problems add to the stress, while LAs think they are great, which they are not.

Everything should be person-centred and not LA centred and be sufficiently funded.

 

Source: LAs: SEND failings are everyone’s fault but ours and it’s too easy to get an EHCP – Special Needs Jungle

The failure of provision for neurodiverse children during the covid-19 pandemic | The BMJ

While COVID has expanded these deficiencies in the Educational system and Health, it is, in fact, underlined by years of insufficient activity and finance from this and all previous governments and one that should be showing the accountability of these government and not of any particular Party, as all have been guilty of these inactions and lack of sufficient finance.

In many instances could it be out of sight, out of mind, that is with the exception of the individual families concerned. but no one listens to families as they don’t speak with one voice, if they actually speak at all.

For what family is really going to take on any particular Government, the respective Secretary of States and Prime Ministers  and any of the Local Authority Educational departments and Health Authorities.

The families don’t have the required financial ability, the time and practical knowledge to do so. Also the inability to find like minded families, but then every, families needs and the needs of their respective children will be different.

Now with the aids of new technology the means to find other families may be more easily possible, but much is governed by Data Protection, and still the financial ability, sufficient allowable time and other resources will not be there. As for much of their lives will require the families, by the mothers and fathers, if they are still 2 parent families, as for some a parental split may have been caused due to the pressures related to caring for their children, which is very time consuming, the need to earn a living, which all create additional pressures which may be too great to deal with together, but much more difficult to deal with if separation of parents become an outcome.

For all of this occurs unseen by non-affected families, who may also have there unrelated difficulties.

It is not as though the problems will have been unseen by some professionals but could be out with their areas of operation, as unfortunately, especially in health but also areas of local authorities, the working in ‘silos’ as been the norm for far too long.

Working together should have always been the common aim and the sharing of information and even some resources for the betterment of others and to increase to knowledge of all concerned, should have been followed. However, even today Silo working is still the norm for some.

 

Source: The failure of provision for neurodiverse children during the covid-19 pandemic | The BMJ

Javid signals end to mandatory vaccination of social care staff – Community Care

To vaccinate or not to vaccinate, yes, it should be a matter of choice, and it should be an informed choice free of unsubstantiated facts. There is far too many conspiracy theories and even outright lies being made about COVID and vaccines, so many are ill-informed.

However, as well as Freedom of Choice, there is also ‘Duty of Care’ and can it be said that to be non-vaccinated is within Duty of Care.

These workers have their hepatitis B injections so, why not COVID vaccinations.

So, there is freedom of choice, but this should work both ways, so should not patients and other cared persons also have the freedom of choice to decide if they wish to be cared for by vaccinated staff or unvaccinated staff.

Also persons can catch COVID whether they be vaccinated or not, but by being vaccinated the likelihood is minimised and if they do it could well be that its effects will be minimal as well, so are these not of major importance also.

We each have a duty to each other to do all we can for each other, so being vaccinated should be good for everyone.

All being said it should be that all will be vaccinated, but we know there are some medical exceptions, so the authorities should also be doing all they can to find other means to have some protection from COVID, for COVID is here to stay and we do, really need to find out how to live with it. So research on nasal sprays, tablets and patches and any others needs to be extended and expedited.

What should not be is Governments doing what they feel is good for them, as their main priority should be doing what is good for the population.

Social care is in a deep crisis and everything should be being done to solve it, instead we have a government playing politics and only caring for themselves or is it just a Prime Minister Boris Johnson MP, who should have already gone.

 

Source: Javid signals end to mandatory vaccination of social care staff – Community Care

Councils and police ‘failing to keep pace’ with child sexual exploitation, report finds – Community Care

The shift to viewing child sexual exploitation as a form of criminal exploitation, ‘deficient’ risk assessments and an ‘unhelpful’ statutory definition have led to false assumptions that rates are declining, says child abuse inquiry

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This report is extremely worrying and so it should be, for usually what is seen is only the tip of the iceberg. Everyone is on their guard, even more so are the perpetrators. These days there are so many areas of communications and it always appears that those doing wrong are ahead of the authorities who are supposed to be monitoring safeguarding.

Schools appear to be more concerned about league tables and their seen reputations, rather than the safety of children to whom they have a ‘duty of care’. In these days of improve communication resources it is surprising of how little communication there is between the respective areas of authorities.

Is some of this down to finance or the lack of and also lack of staffing all affecting the capacity to safeguard all children. For, due to the 10 years of austerity measures all Local Authorities (LAs) are short of finance and also staff, even police authorities.

But children are, or should be a priority wherever they are. It is well known that those children in care are seen as much or even more at risk than children who are not, when, in fact, they should be safer.

Perpetrators are forever on the look out for victims and appear to have a sixth sense for those who are vulnerable, but is this just that vulnerability is more seen by perpetrators than persons in authorities as perpetrators are concentrating on finding vulnerability, while authorities are not because the authorities have to scan the whole range of children not just those with vulnerabilities, so authorities are always to be some steps behind.

So communications have to be greatly improved, much more working together and the Government is not without fault due to their inability to finance LAs appropriately.

 

 

Source: Councils and police ‘failing to keep pace’ with child sexual exploitation, report finds – Community Care

Children and adults with disabilities are feeling abandoned | The Star

This article is in the Toronto Star so is referring to the situations in Canada, but it could so be elsewhere.

So why are persons with disabilities and many other conditions (of which there are many) so discounted by some who do not have disabilities.

With some it will be ignorance as they will not have been, in many aspects anywhere really near persons with disabilities and do not fully understand what is occurring, what has occurred or could occur. These people where ever they are need to be educated and especially so where these persons are in positions of power and influence. As persons with disabilities have rights as do anyone and as such their rights need to be respected.

With others it will because they are selfish and will always put themselves above others be they be with disabilities or not. With these individuals to alter their beliefs will not be easy, if it is ever possible.

It is therefore that there needs to be regulations and Laws to ensure that the rights of persons with disabilities will always be respected and if they are not there will be easily effected means to ensure they are.

This is not down to special treatment being given, but that to achieve equality more may need to be done to ensure equality is achieved.

Much of this could be done by having essential welfare benefits being available which need to be claimed for.

But not all for benefits will not cater for access issues, be they to be with buildings, services, all forms of transport, work and many more as well as many other issues.

We, who do not have any disabilities take much of what there is for granted and maybe don’t notice that difficulties could arrive, but for some many difficulties will arise and there has to be means which will diminish these difficulties to ensure equality for all.

Source: Children and adults with disabilities are feeling abandoned | The Star

Councils in England facing funding gaps plan to cut special needs support | Special educational needs | The Guardian

So funding for Social Care is again in the news and once again the news is not good.

You do not need to be a genius to understand that funding for Social Care is nowhere near sufficient , be it for children or adults and how could it be for since 2010 there was 10 years of austerity cuts to Local Authorities and since the additional costs due to COVID, ay a time when need is increasing.

For is there any a time when need is not increasing, but the Government, this current one and many previous, are unable to understand, or more likely unwilling to understand how austerity cuts will lead to poorer services.

It was said savings could be made from making savings but any savings, if there were ever any have been long gone.

What appeared to be where saving could be made was, in many respects from areas where there was good reasons the areas to be there, for they were there to be used as required. Many examples of this has appeared during COVID, PPE for one and bed capacity for another, although the later could be more to health than social care, but both are very interrelated, so a problem in one will cause problems in the other.

Social Care has always been the poor relation when compared to health and its need has never been so clear as that of health. But the need is there greatly and any lack of need capacity will always have a bearing on health care delivery.

Another reason for social care not being fully recognised is that until you neeed it you, in most instances, can’t see the need for it to be there, but if it is not there when needed then that has serious consecquenses for the people in need of social care. Care that can’t be delayed so, to ensure it is then saving have to be made elsewhere, but that, in turn, creates a shortage from where it has been taken.

For there is no ‘pot of gold’ at the end of a Rainbow.

So send provision will be cut, which then means the ‘Local Offer‘ will not be met.

This is a complete disaster to Children with Special Needs and there families and one where there is no chance fror recovery to be made.

This is disgraceful in a country such as England.

Source: Councils in England facing funding gaps plan to cut special needs support | Special educational needs | The Guardian