Posts by Rosemary McDonald
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come along to Step it Up
The $175 is a bit of a barrier...
Best to let the better heeled get on with addressing inequality...
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and, offering to do Police Checks for potential carers for the client for free.
My PLOD detector is in overdrive here...maybe an overreaction...but I do believe this company is lining up to facilitate/enable a voucher system for home based support...especially in the elder care 'market'.
They will have got my email address, I think (see, I too can use the butt covering phrase!) from the Carers NZ site....I have emailed Laurie Hilsgen on a number of occasions. The Carers NZ site also has a log in....clever...using a largely government funded organisation to capture future clients for your new business.
Even weirder...this company was set up before the announcement from Bill (the lizard) English, what, three months ago...which prompted this post from Hilary.
Is there an announcement pending....?
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Sacha,
http://us11.campaign-archive1.com/?u=debc86f4176df9415b9d6c479&id=3fe19b2d5e&e=845e50ea81
see if this works...from the email they sent me...
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Don't you just love those unsolicited emails?
Got one today, from these guys....https://www.mycare.co.nz/
who are trading as these guys....https://www.business.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies/4632420
and look! There's Laurie Hilsgen from Carers NZ (remember, they didn't support the family carers case until after the PHDAct(2).
Looks to me like this site is in anticipation of a mass roll out of the 'voucher' system, IF type programme.
Usual happy clappy slick site...offering free services to carers and those needing support.
But where is the money coming from...this is a limited company?
They sure are quick off the mark...considering the voucher scheme has not even been set up yet...or do they know something the rest of us are not privy to?
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Sacha,
Rather than fostering a safe alternative service to set up, then close this one for good. Not too bright, the MoH contracting folk.
It was a shame that there were mixed messages broadcast during the time that these reports were hitting the media.
For instance; http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/134374/call-for-legal-action-over-care-home-case,
A disability advocate....
She also wants criminal negligence charges laid against Parklands' owners Neil and Linnaire Joslin. Dr Hickey said after one complaint is upheld an institution should be put on warning, and after a second, closed down.
yet, when the conversation was about Te Roopu Taurima..
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/135964/disability-service-rejects-some-of-report's-findings
Disability lawyer and advocate Huhana Hickey has followed the organisation's progress since it started in 2004. Dr Hickey says it was the first of its kind and should have been given more assistance from the ministry.
"They were not surrounded with the supports they needed. They weren't given the right process and as a result they got left to flounder. And flounder they did - until they got audited and it got sorted out."The incident investigated by the HDC happened on 18th July 2013...some two months after this disability rights advocate assured us that all was sorted at TRT.
Not acceptable.
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http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/soundshistorical
Tonight's (16th August ) Sounds Historical on Natrad dug a 41 year old interview with Bill Rowling out of the archives.
A bit discomforting listening to Rowling talk about inequality and how the haves should share more with the have nots.
Rowling talks about voters being more educated about social and political issues....that basically New Zealanders are fair and rational people.
He also spoke about seeing himself more of a referee, rather than promoting his own point of view on issues of public importance.
I felt rather sad and nostalgic...
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Polity: Too much to swallow on the TPP, in reply to chris,
anyone who attended the weekend’s protests might have observations to share.
We joined the action in the winterless North. Kaitaia had intermittent rain, which (sorry for the cliche) failed to dampen spirits. Hugely diverse assemblage. I was singularly impressed by the Young People...very politically aware, with one young lady declaring she was there for her children's future.
Hone Harawira was good....goodness me, did I just type that? Seriously...he has nothing to lose...but he gave it his all.
Cameras? Any number of 'em. Seemed to be mostly individuals taking snapshots fro social media. One serious looking photographer...I think may have been the editor of the local paper. One individual tweaked my antennae, seemed out of place somehow....
Of interest was the surprising number of Americans. Immigrants, including a local doctor. Not impressed by the directive from the embassy.
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Finally!!! A One in Five programme that isn't all happy clappy inspiration stuff..
A reasonably good discussion about "Social Bonds" ably orchestrated by Mike Gourley.
I am none the wiser...all I can see is it being about commercialisation of human suffering...
What sort of person could possibly expect to profit from the misery of others??
However...more than well worth a listen...
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Eve Rimmer's auto/biography "No Grass Between My Toes"...a must read for anyone interested in the early paralympians. Eve 'tells it like it is', especially some of the less glamorous aspects of international flying and disability.
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This....http://www.hdc.org.nz/decisions--case-notes/commissioner's-decisions/2015/13hdc01655...was released the other day, with a mention here,,,http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/280963/caregiver-held-disabled-teen-on-floor
3. On 18 July 2013, a verbal altercation between Mr A and Mr B occurred at the facility, culminating in Mr B (who weighed around 170kg) physically restraining Mr A (who weighed around 50-60kg). There are various accounts regarding the nature of the restraint, but it is more likely than not that Mr B "grabbed" Mr A, which resulted in both parties ending up on the floor for around 10 minutes.
The report makes confusing reading.
The provider is not named, but the only provider I know of who refers to its clients as "mokopuna" is Te Roopu Taurima O Manukau.
Te Roopu Taurima was one of the three providers scrutinised in the 2012 "Putting People First" report, which examined cases of institutional neglect, abuse and assault.
The other two providers were shut down.
After a damning external review in 2011, huge amounts of resources were poured into this provider, and at the time of the PPF report (Nov 2012)
monitoring of Te Roopu continues
with the Ministry keeping it under close supervision through monthly meetings between a Contract Relationship Manager and Te Roopu’s senior management. A Senior Disability Advisor with significant
experience in complex care under the IDCC&R Act also plays a critical oversight role with Te Roopu.
As a result of these actions, the Ministry is confident that its close monitoring of Te Roopu’s services is
resulting in significant changes in the culture and safety of people in the provider’s care.If the provider in the latest case examined by the Health and Disability Commission is TRT (and my sincere apologies if I'm wrong), then it would seem that the stated interventions were not particularly successful.
This incident happened two years ago.
One would have thought, in the interests of protecting extremely vulnerable people, the HDC would have examined this case much sooner.
"Resolution, protection, learning"
One of the objectives of the Health and Disability Commissioner Act is to "secure the fair, simple, speedy and efficient resolution of complaints".
If this provider is TRT, the one the writers of the Putting People First report described as...
too important to fail. It was the only organisation in the country providing Kaupapa
Maori facilities under its contract, and the Ministry has undertaken to continue to assist Te Roopu to
develop the important services it offers Maori.one can only wonder how many other complaints are waiting to be addressed.