Councils Must Provide Proper Care - ruling

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www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2009/03/26/111108/councils-eligibility-rules-for-disabled-childrens -services.html

Don't think this has been mentioned so far. Apologies if it has.

Hooray! Court case about a child with autism whose parents were told that the support would be slashed. Court have said "Oh no you don't", and pointed out all sorts of laws that most councils have been totally ignoring. It said they have no clue which laws apply to them, they ignore the disability discrimination laws, and they have to do a proper 'children in need' assessment each time, which they nearly always don't. "Many families are simply told that their child is not eligible for services on the basis of their diagnosis. That approach is now clearly unlawful."

The case was called "JL & LL v Islington"

If anyone here has any child with a disability and is in a fight with the local council for services, it might be a good one to show them.

thanks if i ever get hold of our social worker ill mention that if were still battling for help, though you never know she may have actually done something

thanks Amber will be on phone reminding them since we did not even get a assessment as ds dx apparently did not warrant one

even though he has GGs,Sli hpmermoblity,hypertoniaasd traits and oh he does not sleep much either but since we had no dx of asd we not fit their crieta

opps that be GDD

Feel free to clip them round the ear with a copy of that Judgment, Riven (in a non-violent way, of course)

Thank you amber- very useful. We go to panel next week.....

That's great news, really fantastic.

Son's SS assessment will grant him some support with shopping, cooking etc BUT the social worker thought he may only need it 'for a few months'. He has ASD so if SS think they can teach him life skills in a few months and then withdraw all support they are living in cloud cuckoo land.

(Actually they are the same bunch of tossers that you're dealing with Riven).

I shall bear this case in mind when they suggest stopping support.

WetAugust, we take on average 30-100 repetitions of something to be able to learn it, and if it changes even slightly, it takes us another 30-100 repetitions to learn it again. In other words, we mostly need support for life, in some form.

If SS don't know this, they could do with going on a course entitled "absolute basics of ASD".

Very true Amber. It took 3 years of accompanied practise before he could catch a bus on his own. Why are the SS so woefully ignorant about ASD?

Zero training, I suspect. I've recently helped their ruling body to understand more about ASDs (low and high functioning), and I think that information is slowly making its way down the ranks. But it's such a huge organisation that it could do with a faster way to get good practice from one place to another.