Monday, June 26, 2023
Monday 26th June 2023
Another sunny morning, it was a bit breezy when i stood outside the front door. I have met some nice people st the hotel, two if them went back to Cheshire this morning.
I walked to the bus station and got the bus to Fowey, went through a lot of villages; one of which had various flags of different countries. Ukraine, Canada, UK, some I didn't recognise.
We stopped at St Austel by the rail station, I got the bus to Heligan Gardens from here last year.
Got off at the top of a steep hill and walked down into the town, Fowey isn't very big; 2hrs and you've seen it all. I went to a cafe called Sugar and had a brew, I sat upstairs; stairs were a bit of a struggle.
I had a pizza for lunch, I couldn't finish it off so I boxed the rest. I got a shuttle bus from the church, £2 to get ferried round windy roads.
One of my biggest worries is about my PIP. I'm worried sick they'll cut me off again because I'm not 'disabled' enough. Sharon from Wiltshire says I can only be accompanied once, Sharon says I should find an advocate. Where from? Thin air!
I can't just magic one up, I've no idea where to start looking for one. I hope their not trying to get rid of me? Everytime I ring up for help, all I get is the bloody answering machine. I want to speak to a human being, not some automated piece of shit. Rant over.
Planning to go to Perrenporth tomorrow if the weather's fine, but of course I have to ring Sharon first. My anxiety levels have gone up, I'm supposed to be relaxing. Fat chance of that at the moment. Why couldn't Sharon have called and told me, instead of sending a text where I have to wait for a response?
The sun was a red ball tonight. I wandered round the harbour, the Saling club were out.
This could be my last holiday, thanks to the PIP people who could cut me off.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Friday, May 27, 2005
Parenting without Prejidice
- Are you a parent with learning difficulties?
- Have you ever been let down by the medical system?
- Has the system affected your human rights as a parent?
- Have your feelings been ignored?
- Have your children been adopted against your wishe's, & without your consent?
If you have answered yes to most of these questions, or you have been in a similar situation then this may be the group for you. I will be setting up a group for parents with learning difficulties called 'Parenting without Prejudice'. This will be a campaign and support group based in Wiltshire aimed at helping parents who have been in difficultt and unfair situations with social services.
Please check out http://www.disabledparentsnetwork.org.uk/discus/messages/19/45.html?1117210890 for my full story and other links to usefull websites.
Also please check out http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Parentingwithoutprejudice/ for the yahoo group to Parenting without Prejudice.
There was a news report on ITV about how a mother with mild learning difficulties lost both her children to social services just because they thought she couldn't cope. Both children were adopted to strangers within the month, and the Court of European Law have started an investigation saying that their rights as human beings were overlooked and ignored.
http://www.supported-parenting.com/projects/courts.html shows you the problems parents are faced with when they go to court to determine the future of their parenting, and makes harrowing reading.
http://www.supported-parenting.com/parenting/booth.pdf is the Adobi link.
http://www.the-real-picture-of-uk-social-services.i8.com/ is about social workers, and how one of them actually LIED in court.
Thank you for taking the time to read this, sorry that it's so long. The more support I can get, the more chance we have of infuencing change. :)
