Yes just soul destroying having to say all of these awful, negative things about your child. After filling in these DWP forms I went and wrote a list for myself of all of the ways that they are wonderful and funny and kind and clever (6 year old figured out the fermi paradox on his own the other day and is now worried where the aliens are! 🤣), to balance it out.
Soul destroying process. And I know we're lucky that I have a good job and have been able to fund some help myself with private care and nannies. I feel so much for people trying to fight all of this and desperately in need of that money right now, if then told "oh we didn't read it properly but hopefully now somebody will, in another 5-6 weeks". 😡😡
It's unacceptable. The constant fight for help for my kids for two years now is gradually destroying my health due to my own chronic health conditions, I can't keep doing everything with no support, and then what happens? If they push me over the edge so I can't work at all? Is this what they want? Because that's the only logical outcome if they continue this nonsense with every service we try to access. The state would lose our tax and have to fund all of our living costs, a totally false economy when they could just make some small contribution to make things sustainable while I continue to pay the mortgage and everything else. It's utter madness, all of it.
I really hope others on the thread have less of a battle to get it sorted than me. Maybe I am just very unlucky but we seem to have this sort of battle with every single possible service we apply to for anything. We finally seem to (third time lucky!) have a competent social worker so I'm hoping she'll help. Good luck everyone, and much patience (and probably wine).