Inspiritus’ Post

For those who don’t know what AON s are, they have played a large part in the destruction of Children’s Disability Services. The lack of joint up thinking regarding the rollout of Progressing Children’s Services and the AONs, the shambles of PTA mean that Children’s Disability Network Teams are understaffed, even though they are free from the embargo, because of the, in my opinion, unsafe work environment. And whats not factored in to these press releases is that for ever report completed, families are also entitled to a yearly review of needs and have to be given a date when their child’s intervention will start. ( Could someone do the compound interest on that?) As to dates of intervention, privately done AON reports are specifying individual services, eg SLT, OT, Psy etc when the new PDS model is that services are provided by teams. ( no joint up thinking) Not that it matters as most of the start dates will either be best guesses, or made up pushing intervention out years in the hopes posts will be filled. Simon and Anne know all of this, and considering the empty posts 12m is hardly a generous gift. But it will pour petrol on the explosion in private practice and suck more professionals into that area, doing assessments. Why can’t we stop pathologising childhood purely because the government has painted itself into a legal corner, is using clinicians to gatekeep resources and aren’t brave enough to recognise their mistakes. When it comes to Children’s Disability someone should look at who has benefited financially over the years from the mess thats been created. Sadly its not the children and families. Follow the money.

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