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Originally Posted by Cherie
and this brings me back to the point that if you have a vulnerable adult in your family you cannot trust the agencies or the state to support them anymore, you have to be involved whether you are 2 miles or 200 miles away from them, you have to make calls on their behalf, follow everything up, because even positive decisions can be left hanging for months in someones intray, or get forgotton.
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I know someone who has had family around them helping as much as they can, with food, money, rent, emotional support and simply being there for them yet that person has ended up over and over in the same place, an institutaion.
You cannot put his problems down to lack of family contact when you dont know anything about how much contact they had with him. He has several mental health and medical conditions which were backed up by the gp and therefor none of his benefits should have ever been stopped. The parents probably trusted that he was being taken care f as he did not disclose any information about his situation until it was to late.
His condition caused him to be set in his ways, like he needed certain things a certain way so when his rent was stopped he was screwed. All he needed was his rent paid and a professional to check on his progress every week and im sure he would still be here today.
People need to stop blaming the parents fgs this was a major professional blunder and the 3rd reported this week.