Regular readers might notice I've been posting mainly Halloweeny/film/work stuff of late - mostly in order to show that yes - we do normal stuff too - but fear not as for those of you who've been following the girls transition fund/college transport/social work story here's an update.
Basically I'll make this a 'story so far' post save you having to trawl thru months of sarcasm....
Enjoy.
Prologue (March 2020)
School: "We're really surprised you don't have a social worker, it'd be useful with the girls preparing to leave school and go to college....we'll contact them to set up a meeting, don't hold you're breath tho' cos they'll most likely ignore us and get in touch after they turn 16 so they can fob you off to adult services! No but really they'll probably ring..."
April (2 days after the girls turn 16)
"Hiya! Social work here....sorry we've not rung, dead busy here....oh just noticed the girls have just turned 16....sorry about that, not our problem, bye!"
June 2020
A worker from adult services turns up for a chat and a wee bit of political discourse. He's nice but other than being told we do a grand job having 4 Autistic people in the house nothing is arranged or put in place.
May 2022
Advice: "You need social work to unlock the girls PIP to provide transport!"
Us: "Great! Hello social work, can you unlock the girls PIP for transport?"
SW: "We're busy...leave it with us!"
SW: "It's nothing to do with us, you need to talk to magic transport man....anyway they may want to walk/get the bus/fly there....personal choice and all that!"
Us: "They can't travel alone, it'd be really unsafe!"
SW: "But they might want to! Thing is, we've had you on file since 2005 but we thought we'd attempt to send psychic messages to tell you this, you never responded so we reckoned you were OK!"
Us: "Did you think to ring us to see if we needed help?"
SW: "To be fair we did once come to your house to say hello to Cassidy."
US: "Yes you did, then you left and never came back, still no idea what that achieved."
SW: "It meant we could tick a box. Box ticking is very important, you wouldn't understand."
SW: "Anyway, we've left this till last thing Friday afternoon and to be honest I want to go home and get pissed on cheap Prosecco but we could think about maybe talking to someone but in the meantime can you just totally re-organise your week so you can take them to college and back?"
SW: "Oh and by we could talk to someone we actually mean you."
Us: internally screaming.
Bizarrely we find out that you're not supposed to ring Social work and ask for someone directly unless you've made an appointment to speak to that person beforehand.
It's that infamous Kafka-esque, ouroboros timeloop again isn't it?
Oh and still no transport budget....but we have another SW!
Still no budget but we have (yet) another SW who promises to definitely sort it all out.
Still no budget and the SW has gone missing......
So since May we've had 4(!) social workers, numerous meetings and guess what?
The transition fund STILL isn't unlocked and we're still having to take the girls to and from college and pay for it.....
It's the gift that keeps on giving.
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Or turn up once and then fuck off....your call.
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