Yes, you won’t get anywhere at all with complaints from my experience. Although the issues are old, from time to time there will be a fresh decision made. A reassessment, a change in funding level, a change in provision, some kind of new decision that restarts the clock and can be challenged. You might even be able to cause such a decision yourself by making a request, but you have to be careful that it’s a ‘real’ one, and not done solely for the purpose of restarting the clock for a JR, I suspect, or the court won’t like it.
If you can get a solicitor on board now, who is persuaded of your overall case, you can then wait until a new decision is made and the solicitor can get in on it promptly, perhaps. I don’t know. It’s a shame you are not entitled to legal aid.
Hi Josh
That would be a great idea! Otherwise how well we are able to care for our loved ones is always going to be at the mercy of each LA and carers are always going to be ignored and exploited
All I want is to be able to care for my husband at home well and safely
How they can assess need and then refuse to meet it Identify risk and make no attempt to mitigate that risk and get away with it totally astounds me
Surely they are responsible in law?
I have been an SNP member all my life and disheartened by the lack of interest from my MSP on this issue
How do we get the ear of the appropriate people in government ?
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