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Originally Posted by Taf
It can get so bad that even respite is refused as "there is no-one qualified to care for your child". And that is just one excuse we have been given during our 23 years of requesting any form of respite for our twins.
And life hasn't got any easier as they have grown into young adults. 
I had a phonecall a couple of days ago for the "urgent" return of my daughter's ESA reassessment forms. Forms I only received a week before. Another hoop to jump through yet again. |
There is the other side to the coin in Cardiff though Taf, there are families with severely disabled children doing quite well out of the system. These families are costing the local authority where one parent is receiving full carers allowance, the child spends 2 or 3 over night stops with a foster carer, the children are taken out for the day on a weekends and in some cases each time social services visit the the family the local authority has to pay for an interpreter.
The most annoying part in most of these instances is that the disability could have been avoided.