Responses to The Penny Pinching
Apparently the parents of one worker at the Surrey & Borders Old Moat Garden Centre decided to pay their son £3 a day to protect him from feeling used and abused even though they were in a tight financial situation themselves. Surrey and Borders staff also flagged up service users objections to the ceasation of payments and submitted a letter making clear their own doubts about it to the Trust's new Users and Carers FoCUS group.
Presumably Fiona has explained her recommendations to the FoCUS group and lets hope the notes are made available before the AGM.
There is something very Dickensian about this business.
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The Focus Group notes of July are very interesting and appear to show an antagonistic confusion between the attitude towards the PPI which is apparently now prevented from going to the Focus Group meetings by the Focus Group , and the legitimate need for the PPI to understand and take a view about the issues , personalities and policies associated and surrounding the decisions ref : payments which were to be taken away from services Users (only to be later restored by public pressure)
In other words the PPI looks as if its being hamstrung and its role undermined partly by internal Service Reps and the question needs to be asked why that is ?
Are the Service Reps for instance being paid by the Trust ? To what extent ?
I dont think the Focus group members were being antagonistic towards the PPI Forum members at all, they simply said that they shouldnt be treated any differently from anyone else re. the decision to hold meetings in private.
That said , I agree that not allowing a PPI observer to attend Focus meetings is an unwise decision and think the standard of minute taking needs to improve if other service users, carers and the PPI are to only have access to what is going on at private FoCUS meetings through the minutes.
For example , the reasons for the meetings being private were listed in the minutes but what arguments were made in favour of obvservers being present and who they were made by were not recorded.
There is clearly room for more accomodation here.
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