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Named and Shamed Merton Local Authority

Paull

Merton local authority have done practically nothing to comply with the Autism Act, there is still no team of people or a named manager responsible for the commissioning of services to adults with autism.

They have just done one or two very very very minor things to make out they are in the process of complying with the law.

They force you to go through the wrong channel - eg learning disability/mental health and obviously the people here are not trained and have no experience or qualifications in assessing the needs of those with austism so how can they make a correct assessment ? Their wrong assessment is just a way to fob you off and wriggle out of the responsiblities placed upon them by law.

Now they have not even responded to my complaints after 26 days so I have contacted the local government ombudsman.

No doubt they are going to come up with another brick wall, am guessing that they will say I need to challenge them through the law, obviously I have no money for that and we all know that obviously NAS conveniently doesn't bite the hand that feeds them.

"Unfortunately, the NAS does not have its own in-house legal department and cannot give specific legal information and/or advice to service users or members of the public." -really !!!

If anything this would be the most important, number one priority to anyone with autism who is having trouble getting anywhere with their local authority.

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  • Update : still no response from Merton apart form an email 2 weeks ago saying that they had untill 11th October to respond to my complaint  - that was probably after the LGO contacted them.

    It's all one big JOKE, nobody does anything, nobody cares and nobody is even holding councils that are breaking the law accountable. If I steal something I break the law and get punished, how come they can break the law and nothing gets done ? Do I go to the police and tell them about a crime, afterall a crime is when someone breaks the law ?

    I may as well bang my head against a brick wall, this has been going on for a year now and nothing ever happens, nothing gets done, you get ignored and you may as well not even exist.

    If you ask me this is all about money - councils know this is going to cost them so are deliberately breaking the law hoping that if many other councils also do nothing then it will be a headache for anyone to get anywhere and also to make it as difficult as they can for any adult with autism to get any help at all.

    I am beginning to lose my patience, if Merton council are getting away with breaking the law and the lawmakers do nothing about it then what is the point of having any law ?

    Something drastic needs to be done, else this is just going to drag on and on an on with nothing ever happening.

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  • Update : still no response from Merton apart form an email 2 weeks ago saying that they had untill 11th October to respond to my complaint  - that was probably after the LGO contacted them.

    It's all one big JOKE, nobody does anything, nobody cares and nobody is even holding councils that are breaking the law accountable. If I steal something I break the law and get punished, how come they can break the law and nothing gets done ? Do I go to the police and tell them about a crime, afterall a crime is when someone breaks the law ?

    I may as well bang my head against a brick wall, this has been going on for a year now and nothing ever happens, nothing gets done, you get ignored and you may as well not even exist.

    If you ask me this is all about money - councils know this is going to cost them so are deliberately breaking the law hoping that if many other councils also do nothing then it will be a headache for anyone to get anywhere and also to make it as difficult as they can for any adult with autism to get any help at all.

    I am beginning to lose my patience, if Merton council are getting away with breaking the law and the lawmakers do nothing about it then what is the point of having any law ?

    Something drastic needs to be done, else this is just going to drag on and on an on with nothing ever happening.

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