I've just learned that in the county where my mother lives the Carers Assessment is nothing but a box ticking exercise.
The truth is that I smelled a rat as soon as I saw the buzzword du jour..... 'Wellbeing' .... but encouraged by the good folk here I went for it anyway.
The assessor was lovely and agreed that the politics of the whole exercise was distincly iffy - statutory assessments but no money to do anything. She told me that many people say exactly the same thing. ..
Namely why is something that is supposed to be for me 'the carer' assessed on my mother's finances?
So no respite except at the full price - around £1000 per week in this area, daycare maybe but full fees payable. Otherwise, nada, nothing, zilch......
Not a night off, not a day to free to catch up on my self-employed work to rescue a career that is fast disappearing. Nix.
If I end up unemployed and broke I will not be going to the DWP - I'll camp on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street.
I ended up saying that my experience has shown me that there's a lot of good people propping up a system that is nothing but a rancid, contract-winning, expensive round of box ticking. ....
I'm trapped despite my best efforts...
The truth is that I smelled a rat as soon as I saw the buzzword du jour..... 'Wellbeing' .... but encouraged by the good folk here I went for it anyway.
The assessor was lovely and agreed that the politics of the whole exercise was distincly iffy - statutory assessments but no money to do anything. She told me that many people say exactly the same thing. ..
Namely why is something that is supposed to be for me 'the carer' assessed on my mother's finances?
So no respite except at the full price - around £1000 per week in this area, daycare maybe but full fees payable. Otherwise, nada, nothing, zilch......
Not a night off, not a day to free to catch up on my self-employed work to rescue a career that is fast disappearing. Nix.
If I end up unemployed and broke I will not be going to the DWP - I'll camp on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street.
I ended up saying that my experience has shown me that there's a lot of good people propping up a system that is nothing but a rancid, contract-winning, expensive round of box ticking. ....
I'm trapped despite my best efforts...