We received the response from the Interim Chief Executive of Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group yesterday. After finding out that a commissioner had visited the unit last January as part of the Winterbourne View Joint Improvement Programme, seen it was shite and apparently done nothing, I’d rung him in a spin a week or so ago. After a bit of a rant, we agreed I’d email him the question I was randomly asking him;
Bit clunky but here it is;
Can you explain what the CCG has done since Connor died to investigate as to how and why the CCG continued to commission provision they historically knew to be inadequate?
The response is 10 pages long and contains a right load of old murky happenings and, more importantly, non happenings dating back to 2011. I won’t detail the content here. But I will say that it indicates (or reinforces) three things:
1. No one comes out of this well.
2. The response to Winterbourne View has to be up there in the ‘top 10 of ineffectual (or worse) actions’ ever.
3. LB was the victim of institutional disablism. As Jenny Morris said recently; what happened to him was the latest example of the “systemic failure to really value the lives, views and experiences of people with learning difficulties” and of the tendency to “devalue the knowledge, experience and role of parents [and other] family members”.
It really is time to say enough. Stop all the talk. Stop all the pointless meetings. Stop ‘learning lessons’ and other billy bullshit.
And act.
mydaftlife 
SPOT ON Sara! ENOUGH!!!!
Says it all! Getting things down for decoration and came across this again …my sons memorial card (which I shouldnt have to read again)
“I thought your death,
Was a waste and destruction
A pain of grief hardly to be endured
I am only beginning to learn
That your life was a gift and a growing
And a loving left with me!”
For my eyes NOT for NHS excuses!
Why are families seen as the enemy? Yes – time to act….
So well said Sarah. Nothing left to add. X
Yes act. A cultural change needs to be achieved through direct action mass protest. Disability movement unite. I am in.
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Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 11:48:53 +0000
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sarasiobhan posted: “We received the response from the Chair of Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group yesterday. After finding out that a commissioner had visited the unit last January as part of the Winterbourne View Joint Improvement Programme, seen it was shite and appa”