Treatment plan outline

Scorpion ~ that is good to hear , gives your anger in the situation some hope. I suggest you have an early verbal contact dialogue with Class before they are up and running fully,, so you can Prep the way so to say,, for the autistic mind. So the transfer is smooth.

autismtwo said:

Scorpion you have a serious lack of duty of care there with the social services, you need to speak to your GP tomorrow.

I know!

The problem is that there isn't that kind of autism centre where I live (despite living in Cambridge (there is CLASS, but the currently only do diagnosis, no post-diagnosis support)).

Apparently there will be one. Sometime this year. Perhaps.

So, maybe, if I can get something in place, even if it's not completely ideal, now, I can then get transfered over to the autism centre once it exists.

I believe it's going to be run by CLASS, so it should be good, when it's up and running, but then lots of things should be this, that, or the other...

Scorpion,

I picked up on that in your original reply,. as you did not mention an autism centre before the social work services. I have been told,, I can not assess my own needs,, I do not have the knowledge nor expertise on how to treat and manage autism. The worse thing for someone with Autism is to try and fix unsolvable situations,, as we use intellect and not enough emotion, so we just hit our heads of walls so to say.

I think, you are missing an important step,, you need an Autism specialist imput, to draw up the plan with your imput. I spend a year under psychologist assessment(via GP referral), so why would they just turn me onto to the street and say,, draw up your own plan, goodbye.

Scorpion you have a serious lack of duty of care there with the social services, you need to speak to your GP tomorrow.

autismtwo said:

I think social services will be the weak point for me ?

They are for me!

We (my Mum and I) have been left to write a support plan for me all by ourselves.

We didn't choose this.

It was just kind of made clear that if we didn't do it, it wouldn't get done. The process has, so far, taken at least 6 months, if nt longer (I've lost track), and the social worker still hasn't complete a statement of my care needs (which is kind of necessary for writing the support plan, because the support plan is supposed to show how the needs identified in the assesment can be met).

We don't know what we're doing, and the whole process has been extremely stressful for both my Mum and myself.

Every time we think we're getting somewhere with it we find there are more things we haven't even considered, things someone with training and experience in writing support plans would know.

Scorpion ~ Does the system network, work ? I suppose, it depends on the quality of each functional step organisation in the chain. I think social services will be the weak point for me ?

Yeah. That's pretty much it. From what I can gather, the details differ in different areas, but the overall picture is the same.

For me it's:

Me -> (rather useless, so I've pretty much by-passed him, GP) -> Learning Disability Partnership (i.e. Social Services) -> Social Worker -> Penderalls Trust (who, when it's all put in place will handle the management of my budget) -> 'External care body' as you put it.