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Social worker waiting game

AnneMargaret

I was referred to social services last November. I have a friend who had her assessment and funding sorted in January. It's now nearly May and i am still waiting. However we have now found who i should be under and may be able to contact someone. It's a nightmare though.

What should i expect from a social worker?

  • You have my sympathy. I've had nothing but problems with them. I had to ask how I make a complaint before they did something. This something was much less than I need. I have never been properly assessed, ever. Despite being known to them for the last 5 years.

  • That sounds a total nightmare.

    I know i am utterly stressed out with mine. I was only diagnosed with Autism last September and luckily the professor there referred me.

    Still waiting though. Will keep you updated.

  • LOL

    I'm playing the exact same game at the moment too, Anne!

    Can't remember exactly when I was refered to them, but it took my Mum refering me to them to even get that far!

    Then I got a phone call from them, in which they asked me a whole load of utterly irrelevant questions, and at the end of which I was simply told that I wasn't eligable for support!

    So, my Mum then got back on to them and insisted on a proper assesment.

    So they referred me on to the Learning Disabilty team (even though Asperger's isn't a Learning Disability!), but at least they said they would asses me properly.

    Which eventually happened.

    Then nothing happened for some time.

    Then I was told that because I have Asperger's, I, by definition, have an IQ above 70, and so don't meet the criteria for support from the Learning Disability team!

    ARGH!

    So, anyway, my Mum and my Housing Support Officer push for me to still get support.

    My HSO has a face-to-face meeting with the guy from the LD people, my Mum writes supporting evidence letters, etc, etc...

    Then, I get another face-to-face meeting with the LD guy, in which he basically says, "We're the wrong people to be dealing with this you need to go through the Chronicaly Excluded team"...

    OK, we say, let's do that then!

    And my Mum and HSO put together yet more information about why I need support.

    Then, yesterday, I think, my HSO gets an email from the LD guy basically saying the Chronicaly Excluded team won't take me on because I don't meet the criteria for them, and I now need to go back to square one and re-refer myself again!!!

    AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!

    I feel like going over there and not keeping control of my urge to punch people and break stuff!

    Anyway, I truly hope you have much much better luck than me in getting support.