Charlotte Tetley, victim of the Rochdale rape gangs has died

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15114961/Rochdale-grooming-gang-victim-sexual-abuse-killed-inquest.html

Another victim has taken her own life. Why did she have to move and leave her support network? Why was her life and community less valuable than a child rapists? How can anyone make sense of this insanity, why has an inquest only started now?

Shame on the police, courts, social housing and all who failed her. Rest in peace Charlotte.

It's not about staff. It's about the system.

My son COULD have been treated in one hospital - as the doctor had wanted - it was the administrative side that said no because we are not living in that area and I assume it affects budget.

The budget issues should not be the patient's problem. It should be a seamless service and it should be the administrators that work that out between them instead of patients being caught up in what essential are turf wars.

I am fully expecting this to end up going full circle and my local NHS trust ultimately referring us back to the children hospital because our authority doesn't have the service availability and we get choices about where we can be seen - which includes the childrens hospital we were initially rejected from. (He's previously been referred there for something else).

Ironically it often takes less time for us to travel to the childrens rather than our local authority hospital anyway too.

It's not a clinical staff issue. It's very much a Kafkaesque jobsworth one about box ticking and budgets not dealing with humans. It's this concept of 'common sense'.

And I think we will see a lot more of this over the coming 3 or 4 years.

Sorry to hear about your DS, Red. We have had something in a similar vein, though less acute, with DD who got an appointment to see paeds after 18 months, only to be told she is now too old & needs to start again at the back of the queue in adult services. Pre-Lansley, this would have happened automatically.

But it’s not just the NHS. The underfunding of all public services has destroyed the connections between those services and they weren’t great to begin with.

MH services were cut, so a lot landed on the Police who had also had their resources cut and eventually introduced right care, right person, meaning they often don’t attend either. Too many people get pushed from service to service without getting the interventions they need.

As much as a reform government terrifies me, there is no party right now that I have any confidence in.

FGS I thought moving back to a.more centralised funding model was supposed to be fixing those issues.

This is since July.

So no. It's doing the sum total of fuck all.

What gets me is we can't be the only family caught in such a doom loop. I don't live in the middle of nowhere. Its not an unusual condition particularly.

They should know who they should be referring to in the next trust as a standard thing.

Worse still the number of letters we've had through pointlessly telling us this staggers me. Just pick up the fucking phone, sort it and then tell us. We are now up to three posted letters saying no.

If we get referred back to the original place, we will go beyond complaints and go to the MP.

This must be affecting so many people.