Social care experiences

A neighbour living alone and immobilised after surgery following an accident was told social care could not be provided on discharge as it would be 14 weeks before an assessment could be carried out. As she said being entitled to something does not make it available.

Unless you are exceptionally lucky you need to organise and pay for care yourself, and even then it’s something of a lucky dip and carers come at the wrong time for the recipient, or are late because too much is expected of them. As far as I have observed, only the seriously well off can afford really good care.

Not my anecdotal experience either.

i guess they have to tell themselves that.
certainly not my observed experience.
reminds me of the, lessons will be learnt, mantra.

Lucky girl - I’m surprised at the mums et group saying social care is working. I wonder if they’d say that if they were on the receiving end. My experience of social care for elderly friends/ relatives has been you need to know the system inside out to get it to work . We’ve helped friends get essential care packages they’d been refused

The same goes for children and families . That’s made worse by lack of experienced good quality social workers