Took part in a consultation at the Department of Health today all about Improving Corporate accountability in health and social care. I was one of around 20 or so parent/carers who have children with complex needs and challenging behaviour invited to attend and we were joined by a group of learning disabled adults who also came along to give their views.
Lots of great discussions and many common themes emerged. It’s not rocket science but the current system seems to be there to support the bureaucrats and not the service users whilst letting Directors, Senior Managers and commissioners off the hook if anything goes wrong.
I do hope the DoH actually listens and learns from today. People who provide Care services need to know they will be personally held to account in the future if anyone in their care has a bad experience. We never want to see another Winterbourne View ever. This is even more important with dwindling budgets leading to more and more care rationing and a temptation to use the lowest bidder. Fingers crossed.
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