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Parent and Carer experiences of moving to Adult social care: Accessing information and understanding options
Please Report the Errrors?
I see
quite a few
assessments for young people.
Um,
you know,
come across someone who's like 23.
Um,
his
family,
his dad speaks quite good English,
but
has got very advanced Parkinson's and so he's
under CHC care care staff coming in.
His mum's
main language is Bengali,
doesn't speak very much English.
You know,
she speaks,
you know,
she can go and do a shopping and
all of those sorts of things,
but struggles otherwise.
And
Um,
So they didn't know that he was entitled to stay into education beyond 18.
Her son's got learning severe learning disability.
But absolutely could have carried on learning
and wanted to,
but they,
he left school at 18,
didn't know that,
and they were like,
well why are other people going to college?
But nobody explained that to them.
Um,
then,
because her son was getting,
you know,
just didn't have anything to do,
she's got other children as well,
you know,
it was all getting too much,
so people would refer her into
adult social care.
Enablement came out.
And walked him to the swimming pool and said,
well,
he can do that by himself,
that's fine,
signed him off.
He's not going to walk to the swimming pool,
he's got mental health and anxiety issues as well.
Um,
And um
We pushed for an assessment
for him
and
Cause they,
they also said that they couldn't,
they didn't send a translator with the enablement team.
So the mum doesn't speak,
can't communicate about his needs in English,
and he's got a severe learning disability,
but
he didn't have a translator.
Um.
And um
then a new assessment was done.
But
It wasn't Cara blind,
talked a lot about what his mum did for him.
And at the end,
um,
even though we've referred them in to say it's mum's
not coping and he wants to be more independent,
against every eligible need,
it said mum will do.
So,
you know,
we've had to push for another
assessment now we're on the 3rd assessment to try and get it right,
and they are actually looking for him to go to an activity day place
to start making friends and getting out and about.
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