Think on this Haringey SEND
The stakes are for parents high in a daily battle to keep alive their disabled child; to give them the best possible quality of life and frequently, SEND parents suffer from PTSD: nightmares; endless worrying; hyper-vigilance and self blame. In Haringey this has happened in a culture that did not want to listen and communicated badly and cruelly whilst denying services and putting in place unfair barriers. Endless report after report has told us so. We argue that to move on Parents might need Truth and Reconciliation.
There is a need for Truth and Reconciliation in Haringey - stop blaming the parents
Given report after report of Haringey's troubled SEND system, it's time to think about what parents have been going through for the best part of the last decade.
We've have the Judgement from Mr Justice Hayden about the lack of robust social work practice and a defence from the department that did not stand up to examination; we've had the SEND transport report and the AMAZE Report and now the OFSTED report that added nothing but an authoritative confirmation of what we've always known - that there is neither a culture nor practical systems in place
for coproduction to occur.
The Loudest Voices were dismissed before the inspection and are being shunned now
The local authority give the impression that they simply want to move on
, but this is not being accepted by the vast majority of parents who are concerned that Haringey are brushing the past under the carpet as quickly as they possibly can.
Minutes of meetings with the new Parent Carer Forum
suggest that parents have been criticised for having 'the loudest voices' and accused of 'drowning out' the voices of others.
Enough with the whispering campaigns
And I am quite sure that a fair few of the readers of this blog will have been pulled aside for a quiet word warning then to keep aware from so-and-so parent.
Time for the playground behaviour to stop
It is simply time for this sort of divisive conduct to end.
It is time for The Truth.
The time for Reconciliation may follow, once parents feel that they have been heard.
After all, it is the parents who have suffered the 'poor communication' from the professionals.
This is the sort of thing that families with children with life limiting conditions go though every day - THINK ON THIS HARINGEY
Today, read a judgement by Mr Justice Hayden from 11th October 2021. The Judge said in his judgement that the analysis in a report shown to him needed to be shared more widely. Happy to oblige your Honour.
The case before the Judge was of the parents of a very sick and vulnerable disabled child who were in conflict with professionals
The professionals found the parents to be 'difficult parents' and the Judge instructed a psychological assessment
The psychologist is very well respected
The psychologist's assessment
Normal people in very challenging circumstances
Summary of daily life in extraordinary circumstances
Take a look yourself
Now check yourself Haringey SEND
