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Social Services Support - I use the word "support" lightly!

MummysGirl

Been having some very interesting chats with other parents of ASD children and some of their stories when approaching Social services for help. I always wait till Im at the end of my tether before I ask for help. Im a single parent of an autistic girl and in 12 yrs Ive asked for help 3 times and refused. What excuses has your local SS given you to deny you support? The best one for me so far is ...

"look, youre feeding your daughter strawberrys, youre coping just fine"

Foot in Mouth WARNING: NEVER FEED YOUR CHILD STRAWBERRIES IF YOU NEED HELP!

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  • IntenseWorld said:
     They fail children like Baby P and Daniel Pelka and yet come down like a ton of bricks on innocent families but by the same token families asking for help, don't get it.  Families are trying to avoid reaching crisis point, and social services are, according to the law, supposed to use preventative measures such as respite to ensure it too, but they don't.  No-one enforces the law in this regard, no-one polices it.  We just get the NAS running campaigns about it because it's all such a failure.  And yet the NAS fails adults with AS/HFA and when I rang their helpline before my younger daughter was diagnosed, in absolute desperation, they refused to help me because she didn't yet have her diagnosis.

     

    Soo true, the first part and I love it (Yell) when they say lessons have/will be learnt. Errm no, if they had/are we wouldn't keep getting such tragedies with the same reasons coming up time and time again

     

    Agree about the NAS issues, but as there are few other charities etc to take on the case, I kind of need to refer people on to them except when they're absolutly useless.

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  • IntenseWorld said:
     They fail children like Baby P and Daniel Pelka and yet come down like a ton of bricks on innocent families but by the same token families asking for help, don't get it.  Families are trying to avoid reaching crisis point, and social services are, according to the law, supposed to use preventative measures such as respite to ensure it too, but they don't.  No-one enforces the law in this regard, no-one polices it.  We just get the NAS running campaigns about it because it's all such a failure.  And yet the NAS fails adults with AS/HFA and when I rang their helpline before my younger daughter was diagnosed, in absolute desperation, they refused to help me because she didn't yet have her diagnosis.

     

    Soo true, the first part and I love it (Yell) when they say lessons have/will be learnt. Errm no, if they had/are we wouldn't keep getting such tragedies with the same reasons coming up time and time again

     

    Agree about the NAS issues, but as there are few other charities etc to take on the case, I kind of need to refer people on to them except when they're absolutly useless.

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