Cllr Seema has restored my faith in human kindness
- By Brian Leveson
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- 18 May, 2022
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Further to my somewhat grumpy blog yesterday about having our Blue Badge stolen, all's well that ends well, as Councillor Seema Chadwani steps in and delivers replacement Blue Badge (not literally, she's not moonlighting at the Post Office).
As some regular readers of the grumpiest blog in Haringey may know, I was in a furious mood yesterday because some person* took my son's Blue Badge without my permission. They were so much did not have my permission that they got it by smashing a window in my car. And rather rudely, no note was left to say who they were or where they had taken it....
(*see previous blog, I was not that kind yesterday)
(*see previous blog, I was not that kind yesterday)
Step in Councillor Seema
No there is a slither of humanity in this story - no the police haven't caught them, nor have I had the car repaired but what did happen is Councillor Seema Chadwani (that's Cllr Seema Chadwani, chief of the bins and the disabled parking).
Councillor Chadwani steps in and this morning I came back from my swim and there it was - a new Blue Badge!
Compare this to DVLA who still haven't managed to send the V5 after 2 weeks (although I see on the laptop it was issued Sunday this week), or Motorbility and their 18 month delivery time or DWP taking 46 weeks to process a change from a DLA to a PIP. - See yesterdays blog for what I am on about: https://www.difficultparent.com/blue-badge-stolen-and-we-are-being-screwed-by-the-systems-designed-t...
Councillor Chadwani steps in and this morning I came back from my swim and there it was - a new Blue Badge!
Compare this to DVLA who still haven't managed to send the V5 after 2 weeks (although I see on the laptop it was issued Sunday this week), or Motorbility and their 18 month delivery time or DWP taking 46 weeks to process a change from a DLA to a PIP. - See yesterdays blog for what I am on about: https://www.difficultparent.com/blue-badge-stolen-and-we-are-being-screwed-by-the-systems-designed-t...
So, the thing to take away from this is ...
I feel quite animated!
If you thought SEND was bad - the NHS is seemingly prepared to throw away money to private companies
About 3 or 4 times a year we get the euphemistic message 'Parents please note we have put a letter in your child's bag' - its a world away from how a child's death was handled in my child's first school
More of a trial by ordeal than a well organised clearly set out administrative process for moving the care of vulnerable young adults from Haringey's Children's Services to Adult Services. We have been failed at every stage of the process.
Never EVER get on the bus without a camera running if you need the priority wheelchair space
The reality of using a London Bus in the teeming rain on a Sunday afternoon is no joke when the parents of a paraplegic person in a wheelchair clash with the self-entitled buggy-pushing parents of toddlers.
At 3pm today I received some barefaced lies from Haringey Council Adult Social Care in response to a photograph I published online yesterday and the media interest it generated
Haringey SEND Transport are insisting that a 17 year old minibus with no air conditioning is a suitable vehicle to transport my paraplegic son in this heatwave. The appalling conditions inside the minibus inside the bus is something they knew about last summer, yet they have to date done nothing whatsoever provide a suitable minibus this year nor appropriately mitigate the temperatures inside the minibus.The conditions inside the minibus are so bad that they triggered multiple seizures during the heatwave as my son has epilepsy, which they SEND transport department know about and they also know that they are triggered by heat.It is not just son who is impacted: last year we know of one child who died on Haringey SEND Transport in the summer heatwave and another who had seizures.
I am simply asking a question - are we all absolutely certain that the road closure / travel restrictions (commonly know as LTNs) placed on some of the most severely disabled people who are wholly reliant on cars are absolutely necessary
Haringey's road closures exemptions policy for disabled people is not fit for purpose, unduly burdensome and intrusive - it's time to stand up against the pro-LTN lycra-clad cycling bullies
Is the argument for and against exemptions for disabled people in Low Traffic Neighbourhoods really a case of GOOD versus EVIL?
