极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: Judge dismisses ‘unaffordable’ care package case

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Marycom

Marycom — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:43:35 +0000

It is incredibly sad that this gentleman having experienced devastating injuries can not depend on his local authority to treat him with respect and kindness denial of capacity is a shameful way to go.
I am disgusted that the only value placed on this is how much it will cost the local authority to attempt to give this gentleman quality of life and no value is placed on this gentlemans right to a family life. why should he be forced to remain institutionalised because it is considered a cheaper option – surely not. People forget there for the grace of god……

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Anita Singh

Anita Singh — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:13:34 +0000

The problem is when you introduce PROFIT in social care services. I do not recall local authorities riding roughshod over human rights, the rights to choice, inclusion of wider family members and creating care packages that were right for the individual when it was under LA control. Yes LAs always had to balance the books, but had far more control when they were employing the workers directly. Prior to the outsourcing of adult social care services, the average Home Carer earned a living wage (not as many contractors pay now, which is far less than the figure of £13.91 quoted above. Home Carers were given sufficient time to meet their clients needs and not rationed to ridiculous time frames, with no travelling allowed in between and their costs for travel paid at very low levels (definitely not 45pence a mile that most other professionals get). On the other hand, when the NHS has been paying, in my experience private care agencies then argue for providing two workers where one would have been more than enough. However, the service received is abysmal. Agencies can use the opportunity to make a fat profit out of the NHS for doing next to nothing. They refuse to do most things on the grounds of health and safety, send two carers where only one is needed and spend most of their time justifying why they could not do something. An absolute disgraceful waste of money and at the end of it, family members end up doing most things that they had refused. LAs and to some extent NHS set about defending the private contractors they have commissioned and usually do not want to admit when the service is poor and families then find themselves pushed out and suddenly the matter of the mental capacity of the individual becomes the issue.

Please do not compare getting the car serviced to the care of a vulnerable or seriously ill adult, as they are incomparable.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Robin Owen

Robin Owen — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 13:19:45 +0000

Our LA pay £13.91 per hour with £75 payment for overnight care. 13.91x16x7x2carers=3115.84 +7×75=525 total £3640.84. £13.91 gives less than 4% profit margin = £145.63 per week profit.

DON’T TAR ALL PROVIDERS WITH THE SAME BRUSH!!!

Unless every care provider is run by a philanthropist, the whole system is going to collapse and pretty soon.

You probably pay in excess of £50 per hour to get your car serviced by an apprentice earning £5.55 per hour.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Finola Moss

Finola Moss — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 18:47:25 +0000

The average cost of keeping a Learning Disabled/autistic in the misnamed community/ independent, living away from parental home living, is over £4,000 per week. Far more if condition deemed severe .

Yet, the only adult support now at 18 for life, is in such places, which can only be described as institutions serviced by mainly itinerant . zero hours care workers.

Read about law and examples by googling finolamoss blog

So that the maximum profit can be made for their often venture capital, monopoly commissioned by LA/HSCT commissioned care provider owners.

At 18, all these vulnerable young people, are being removed against theirs and their parents wishes, to such enforced residential accommodation, on being declared ‘incapable’ of making any decision for life under the Mental Capacity Act by the Court of Protection in secret and gagged for life. Parents often cut out from visits.

The LA policy now, is not to provide adult care at home, and if this is sued for under the HRA s8 Right to Family, LA will say RESIDENTIAL CARE, is the only care that is available and is a proportional interference.