Posts by Sacha
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If only we all shared Dunne's "confidence in the Ministry of Health to handle the process in its entirety from now on."
What's the bet the number of approvals actually goes down?
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Access: Help needed! Deciphering the…, in reply to Angela Hart,
The petition would call for an over-arching agency to be set up
That has been a rallying call for many years. Pros and cons.
Main benefit is one place to go that understands the experience of disability. Ministry of 'Health' still seems to believe it's about being sick longer before getting back to 'normal'. Having only a rehabilitation academic on this govt's social welfare change committee did not help that at all.
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to andin,
Yeah they blame their circumstances
Much encouragement for many decades ..
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Ruby Knox's DHB is commissioning an external review of its 'high and complex' support services (by Rosemary Marks, the audio track said).
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Access: Help needed! Deciphering the…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
I wonder if anybody compared service responsiveness from the old Department of Social Welfare to the Misery after Richardson and co made the switcheroo?
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Access: Help needed! Deciphering the…, in reply to Sacha,
Simon Collins touches on many of the systemic problems around autism support services.
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Access: Help needed! Deciphering the…, in reply to Angela Hart,
Might have been in wrong location for their needs?
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Incompetent agencies finally act after publicity, but Housing NZ still manage to offer a rare accessible house to non-disabled people ahead of a wheelchair user who had been living in a car with her family for 2 months.
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I hope the left can out data them somehow.
Requires lots of money.
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How our 1990s funder/provider 'market' approach does not work for disability support services is touched on in this story about Donella Knox's murder of her autistic daughter Ruby:
Butcher said that even though Knox was allocated respite care she couldn't take it as there were no qualified carers in her region.
Allocating a number of hours does not make a suitable provider magically appear, except in libertarian fantasies.
An earlier story reports some testimony at her trial:
Medical professionals denied that the system had painted Donella into a corner. They said that 252 days a year of respite care was made available to her - a higher allocation than anyone else on their books. She could also choose the carer. Health records show Donella was getting "regular and sufficient" breaks away from Ruby.
One support worker told the court Donella had rejected residential respite options and was a person who "dwelt on the past".
This is a disturbing and complex situation. Somebody might want to do a separate post about it?