Normal Service.....

So the weekend kicked in with more rain and wind and rain and a leaking central heating pipe and an leaking oil pipe and normal things for the house here.

Having rebooked our weekend away we then noticed that we had something on that weekend and so re booked again which cost 25 pounds because the first time had been the ferry company fault the second ours.

Then this morning into the local collage to ask a few pertinent questions on behalf of Taliesin, apparently the person who took over responsibility for his "special needs" gave them such a priority that they had not enquired if he needed any support on his course even though the tutor had asked for help for a number of students who were struggling with written content. Soooo years of hard work keeping him in school and on track has become, he is a failure and about to quit the course this was the first she claimed to have heard.

What could be described as a fairly robust opinion from his parents was followed with a promise of some immediate action.

I would be there to see how they got on, tomorrow evening I said, I was going to discuss doing a post grad teaching qualification.

Oh yes, said one of them, she was the admissions tutor for that course, Oh boy, don't think I will be offered a place there any time soon then.....

Then home, and there was more, need to sort out parental contact for one of the guys here. Fostering had been none to happy with our comments about the new contact service. Organising contact around what they were prepared to do meaning that a disabled parent had to make 6 bus trips to get there and ended up losing 30 minutes of 2 hours of contact. A contact that started and ended in tears, not quite optimal.

We had said the next one needs to be properly planned and since then had heard nothing from the fostering service.

Bull by the horns time, on the phone to the district team. His SW had gone out said the receptionist then the line went dead. Phone back, next receptionist, this time she had "gone sick". Asked to speak to duty SW and it turned out she was sick, so when was she expected back, errrh she wasn't.

She had it seems handed in her notice and then immediately gone sick, of course no one thought to tell us, or the child.

So where does this leave him when it comes to seeing his parents?

You tell me.

Now, things happen, but if something like that happens once it should not be allowed to happen again. Rather, this is a re run of something that has happened several times before.

People talk a good talk about professional respect, service user involvement and inclusion. Too often the reality is different.

So off we went to phone the fostering team where no one was available to talk to their co professionals.

R