Hocus Pocus & Missing FoCUS Notes
Rosemary Moore of Surrey has drawn attention to the fact that the notes from the last meeting of the Surrey & Borders user and carers FoCUS group , which apparently contained relevant information on therapeutic earnings , have not been uploaded to the Surrey & Borders Partership Trust's website yet.
Interestingly, board papers already on the website clearly highlight the Trust's policy on therapeutic payments and consultation as the July 2006 document Outcome of consultation on "Building on the Best provides a summary of the January 2006 – 14th April 2006 work services consultation process, an outcome report which completely ignores the very public criticism of the Trust's actions by the garden centre workers, their carers , other service users the local media and a local MP.
In the the minutes of the WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE held on 27 June 2006 however , item 2 states :
The Minutes of the meeting held on 14 March 2006 were accepted as a true and accurate record subject to the following amendment: Page 2 – para. 3 It was noted that Therapeutic Awards to service users would stop at the beginning of April 2006.In other words, if you keep an eye on the dates, ' the long standing therapeutic payments system was scrapped before the ' work services' consultation process was even over so no-one was actually consulted over Surrey & Borders decision to stop paying its garden centre workers for therapeutic work.
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Just shows it doesnt matter what any of us think, they just do what they want anyway
They clearly do within the Surrey & Borders catchment area.
It will all matter as information from all sorts of other parts of the country are collected and shown to the right people . And the "right people" change over time as policies are seen to be cheap and far too work orientated and not enough led by the Users voices themselves .
This Trust has rubber-stamping groups like others . Its like many other Trust bureaucracies that want bureaucracy to be glove puppeting patient choices and voices . BUt some people are seeing through this cheap and controlling ritualism .
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