Thus weeks Silent Witness, aibu or was it a poorly written sack of shit tonight?

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Aibu to never watch it again? How can that many people be so stupid?

They can all see the boy Jack reacted to the police man because of his learning difficulties but they send cops with guns???
You can see the lead detective has a chip on his shoulder, he is rude, brusque and lacking in empathy, jumps to conclusions and again noone else does anything.

Tilly the carer can see the girl has been raped and does nothing??
I have watched silent witness since it began, aibu or maybe im oversensitive raising a dd with asd but wtf??

HelenaDove Yes - you get threads on MN exactly like this. The envy and small mindedness of the GBP towards anyone who gets any sort of financial -or other - help is staggering. So, so hate-filled and venomous.

Just take a look at any edition of the Daily Mail or The Sun and it is filled with this sort demonisation against anyone using the benefits system.

Personally I think any journalist that whips up that sort of feeling should be simply jailed for promoting hatred.

The case of Stefan Kiszko

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/a-terrible-crime-with-two-victims-1047375

disabilityarts.online/silent-witness-history-making/

I actually thought it was very good and powerful. But not a comfortable watch

I thought the same of Kiri

Just watched it all, so much glossed over at the end Clarissa was great though. It seemed like the policeman (sergeant) was supposed to have ASD traits or is that massively off the mark?

I'm still not over Harry leaving SW TBH

Agreed bananamonkey it needed a much clearer defined ending....

I've been so disappointed with the last two series and have just about given up on it. This week's was particularly dire. Liz Carr is a great person but I can't agree with some here who find her acting good. I don't. She's got better but is still weak. Rosie Jones however is a real find. The highlight of a dire couple of programmes. I hope she's able to find work off the back of it. I found some of her scenes mesmerising but a shame it was such a dreadful plot.

I gave up on SW a while back as just became so poor and unrealistic with them all dashing off to investigate!
If I ever win a large lotto jackpot I want to set up some decent care homes that pay good wages to attract decent staff and not pay a pittance to anyone that'll work there, it's so poorly paid and lacking in decent supervision that it seems to attract those that should least be working in such a setting!

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You never said a truer word. Measures need to be put in place to ensure that care work is viewed as an important, high-status occupation, instead of the kind of work you do if you can't get anything else ,with minimum wages and largely unskilled/untrained, (apart from 'on the job' training), non-specialist staff. Elevate the qualifications required to do the job, increase the wages and introduce a realistic (higher) staff/client ratio. That would be a start.

Agree Donkey and Adara. And care work should NEVER be advertised in a JC if they are then going to give claimants the choice of "take this care job or be sanctioned" This increases the chance of an unsuitable person ending up in the role.

One problem is the LA’s won’t pay more than a pittance -so for the most vulnerable (eg those with complex needs or learning disabilities who may be in care from childhood) there is very little room to pay more than the minimum. There’s no options for top ups there as there is for the elderly (although if you are in a residential home all your benefits will be taken except £25 a week). In fact it is very difficult for small providers to even stay open and currently many are being bought up by large corporates (big profit driven organisations are even buying up the care homes of charities like Scope) backed by hedge funds - who use the vast scales involved to make profit. So big corporates can make money from public funds while smaller organisations (with ‘better’ values) go to the wall.

This issue is increasing now as LA funding has been cut to the bone and many small/medium sized care corporations simply can not afford to keep going (so they sell out to the big boys).

I had a long chat with the CQC about it before Xmas. They certainly seemed to understand the impact it had on Care and what it means for those on the receiving end but seemed resigned to it being part of the crisis in care.

As someone with a son who will always need 24 hour 2:1 care, who has already suffered abuse in care (see above, both incidents in his first year in care), who has already seen his providers bought up and who has already ended up 8 hours from home due to lack of local provision I am VERY scared for his future. If he didn’t have high care needs I’d be looking at various ways to avoid the care system. Unfortunately last time he was home his brothers had to move out and both dh and I had to stop working - we just can’t do that for months/years on end - we are forced to hand him over and hope for the best (& with the number of unnecessary deaths that occur in care that worries the crap out of me).

There are good providers out there, but it is very challenging environment for them as well

It makes me wonder if actual real life pathologists get so involved with crimes,,

No way! That is the daftest part but hey, it’s only fiction.

Rose a lot of the incidents shown in the programme have happened in one setting or another.

I want to revise my post from 00.28 I dont think JCs should be allowed to have care work advertised as jobs on their system at all.

It should be taken out of the equation altogether.

I wonder if Philip Hammond or Philip Davies watched it. The former claimed UK productivity rates were low because more disabled ppl are in work. The latter said disabled ppl should be paid less than minimum wage.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/philip-hammond-uk-productivity-rates-low-because-more-disabled-people-are-in-work_uk_5a281714e4b044d16726b7bd

www.theguardian.com/society/2011/jun/17/tory-philip-davies-disabled-people-work

No way! That is the daftest part but hey, it’s only fiction

exactly

Behind the scenes and interviews

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05wnr5d

I can't wait until the hire decent writers for the next series...a great show ruined by crap endings

Just caught up on iPlayer.

The only far fetched thing is Jack and Nikki running around like Police vigilantes, like they do every episode.

The abuse in the care homes is all to believable. Unfortunately.

The only far fetched thing is Jack and Nikki running around like Police vigilantes, like they do every episode.

Yes, when do they get time to do all their reports and paperwork? I wonder what r/l forensic pathologists make of it?

The abuse in the care homes is all to believable. Unfortunately.

Yes.

The only far fetched thing is Jack and Nikki running around like Police vigilantes, like they do every episode

yes this is a bit annoying.. it loses authenticity therein

www.theguardian.com/society/2018/feb/15/training-could-save-lives-1200-learning-disabled-people-mencap-study?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/health/blackpool-care-home-we-can-t-afford-to-pay-staff-minimum-wage-1-9019442