I clearly can only speak for my own daughter but she has been going to Medina Centre for twenty four years, she does not like change for she has autism amongst other things, she loves the centre and is attached to the staff, if I ever suggest for example that she takes a week out and we do something else, say in the summer holidays she becomes very distressed, she calls it going to work, this so called personal budget is supposed to free her to do other things, well what exactly is she supposed to do? She can`t cross the road by herslf, she cannot be left unattended, I certainly cannot take her out and entertain her three days a week, I have to run and a home and care for other children, I see her doomed to sitting in her bedroom listening to music and watcing dvds with little of no social outlet.
Why should I stand back and watch them take away from her the little she has God knows she will never know life as the rest of us know it, never marry, have chilren, go out on the binge with her mates, all she has is the little I have fought for and believe me even what she has now was fought for many times. I know it is hard to understand if you have no such children in your family but I would like to kill anyone who deprived her of anything she has, sorry know that sounds ridiculous but it`s how I feel.
Posted by
michaelz
on 2nd July 2010
at 10:05
I clearly can only speak for my own daughter but she has been going to Medina Centre for twenty four years, she does not like change for she has autism amongst other things, she loves the centre and is attached to the staff, if I ever suggest for example that she takes a week out and we do something else, say in the summer holidays she becomes very distressed, she calls it going to work, this so called personal budget is supposed to free her to do other things, well what exactly is she supposed to do? She can`t cross the road by herslf, she cannot be left unattended, I certainly cannot take her out and entertain her three days a week, I have to run and a home and care for other children, I see her doomed to sitting in her bedroom listening to music and watcing dvds with little of no social outlet.
Why should I stand back and watch them take away from her the little she has God knows she will never know life as the rest of us know it, never marry, have chilren, go out on the binge with her mates, all she has is the little I have fought for and believe me even what she has now was fought for many times. I know it is hard to understand if you have no such children in your family but I would like to kill anyone who deprived her of anything she has, sorry know that sounds ridiculous but it`s how I feel.
http://ventnorblog.com/2010/06/15/medina-centre-given-notice-by-iw-council/
http://ventnorblog.com/2010/07/01/medina-centre-closure-my-views/