Showing posts with label Scope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scope. Show all posts

Sunday, 3 December 2017

THE SOUNDS OF CRACKING

A second case of perfect timing in less than a week.

One was someone that should now better with me that could not understand how you can attend a hospital appointment and they are not quite sure why you are there.

Listed as inadequate and this is in a flurry of Doctor and hospital visits I have never witnessed the likes of on just a couple of weeks. I have know many people who have died and some of those died of cancer and I have never .. EVER seen medical staff move like this!

The latest was a woman on DPAC's Facebook page that did not really see a problem with any of the public services I am involve with and suggested the problem was me. Lol. Obviously does not read the tabloids or watch the news. Because there has never been anything wrong with the public services anywhere .. EVER?! Oh, wait? No it is anywhere from every other week to every other day.

Not to mention the fact that recently that there as the revelation that lung cancer screenings had been fecked up and now the NHS has contacted all trusts about it.

Like I aid to y daughter .. no mention of how long these mistakes were filed away and then there is the question of how much damage has been done in the interim?

Then early this morning I spotted another news issue and this time involving disabled people, though whether this is a section or not I do not know, and the resigning of Theresa May's Social Mobility Commission. No less than four of them, would you believe?

It seems nobody wants to end up with these horrible labels they will then have trouble removing and it is interesting that it is moving up the ranks.

They cite the lack of progress towards a fairer Britain as the reasons.

Funny because as far as I can tell it has been heading in the opposite direction for more than ten years.

It is also funny because it has gotten to this .. bizarre stage and yet the mainstream news media has not remarked on any of the stories, well 90% of the time, since this started. In my personal experience this started long, long ago. Well before I moved to Enfield which was in June 2007 and therefore way before the financial crisis started.

In fact when I look back at the start and despite the sheer shock and unison of 'o's and 'no's coming from the House of Commons when the financial crisis was announced, it was almost like they knew.

They started to attack the helth conditions that not only included people unable to fight back but had likely no one who would understand what they were saying and even support them in fighting back.

Patients with mental health problems.

I feel pretty sure that is where it started and because it was the easiest target for them to go at without repercussions. Legal Aid had also been slowly dismantled years before too so even less of a chance of any comebacks.

Once this was achieved, one Psychiatrist I had spoken to only realised late on they were attacking those with mental health issues, they could then move onto the next group.

The clever plan here is that they might move onto a number of groups before they were rumbled and that even when they did people would point the fingers in all the wrong places. At the time this was the private company appointed as assessors, Atos Healthcare. Now only known as Atos.

I knew the truth but many disability group members did not. They thought that by getting rid of Atos or making the DWP and government aware of what Atos was doing would have them gotten rid off and that very literally over-night. I knew this was all wrong too.

Among those to resign are former cabinet ministers of both the Conservatives and Labour!

I wonder if others might follow?

Well look, for the love of God, at the number of governing bodies, watchdogs, ombudsman and chairites in each and every case. They have done nothing and with little or feeble excuses in each case. These number into the, very literally, many dozens. Even the health service alone has four or five bodies, maybe more? PHSO, PALS, NICE, GMC, CQC and possibly others? There is five and I have been wrapped up to no avail with the first four of those five.

Hear that, dumb-arse woman? I have been involved with four out of five health service watchdogs and they have done nothing. Not even asked for the evidence I claimed that I had.

Yeah .. I have my ways when I am pretty sure I am dealing with an organisation that is basically a con, payig themselves salaries of either the taxpayers money, winds me up the most, or from public donations, winds me up almost as much.

Hmm come to think of it I wonder how many of those donations are made as a tax dodge anyway?

The DWP have at least one, ICE or the Independent Case Examiners but if you are dealing with them, plan to deal with them I strongly urge you to check their email addresses. They run through the DWP's mail servers .. or through their buildings, in other words. Not really something you could truly call 'independent' now, is it? I do not know if there are others. CAB are absolute crap with the DWP .. unless your unable to speak English.

The Local Councils have the LGO. Or Local Government Ombudsman and I am fairly sure there is at least one other body. Oh of course .. Ofsted .. where children are involved. They have listed this council as inadequate sooo where are the others and where is the LGO?

Well all know about the Police and the Independent Police Complaints Commission. Yup a big nada and bullshit from them too!

Scope?

Disability Rights UK?

Age UK?

The list goes on.

Then there is the private side to from advertising to energy and on to communications. And even bailiffs. I have had reasons to contact the watchdogs and ombudsman for each of these not to mention many more besides. ZIP!

So will these four resignations within that one commission be followed by more? Will those on the verge of having enough, moral ones that is, then follow suit? Will this be followed by the amoral ones that get too scared that they will be exposed as amoral and before doing so quit to keep up the charade, and assure themselves their next career, all start walking out too?

One can only hope and only time will tell.

Notice how no one within the either the reporting or the discussions about the EU divorce bill has mentioned anything about disability rights? They have not even spoken about human rights, well not about their native people and as I already stated .. nothing on disabled people or even children, for that matter?

It is simply disgusting and the one and only thing that keeps me going, other than four children and a daughter who is constantly feeling ill and/or in pain, is that other people with a high standard of morals and are not naïve or beavering away on their on plans to do something about the injustices with absolutely everyone.

Being secretive towards your own people simply does not pay and in the long run is doomed to failure. Because they never stop at the obviously lies, like things involving the secret services which could be questionable anyway, they start thinking they can lie about the next thing and the next thing and then the thing after that.

Before you know it they are lying half of the time and everyone knows it but somehow accepts it for just the way things are.

They think it is not directly affectig them yet and they still have their jobs soo .. what is the point and as one naïve woman put it to me “It wont ever change” and “You cant change anything!” leading me to ask why in the fuck she bothered even going on the site where people are trying to help each other out? Yeah .. every insists on thinking like that then yes it wont ever change.

It is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I do not like people giving the wrong advice, or that people are naïve and walk around with blinkers on and .. I certainly do not like self-fulfilling prophecies!

So I thought for a couple of years about either creating a website .. the company used was not very good in their design, or a blog. There was also the possibility of a YouTube channel. So I started a blog .. then another blog .. then another blog and I ended up with twelve. I had already technically had a YouTube channel I only ever uploaded the odd video to. So I started to get more filming when and where I could and start slowly adding to that.

I am not an idiot. I did not think I as going to change things over-night.

Though there was the possibility that when the government and its bodes inevitably discovered what I was doing they might change things? They might have done in small ways?

What I was aware of was that to change things in the UK alone I needed as many people being aare of my blog and my recorded data and documents that I could. This would mean that it would at least have to being the millions.

Even with the viewers being in the single figures when it comes to millions there would inevitable me more aware of me because .. well people .. talk. Surely you know that Surely THEY know that?

Whether these millions had to be in a single blog or across everything I was not sure.

I did think that with some of my exposing early on that I might reach a million in a year or two? But this has turned out not to be the case, unless someone is messing with the figures being reported to me?

But I do not nor can not think about these possibilities of someone messing with me because .. I jut have to keep going .. somehow.

My other blog have taken a hit of late through doing the things others seem to be shirking their responsibilities over.

But I am seeing the signs, finally, that this is getting harder and harder for them and with Iain Duncan-Smith resigning that was a first as well as a surprise.

So .. is a barrage of label dodging about to take place?

I have already witnessed a backlash against governing bodies and charities on Facebook and I have been predicting that one for a very, very long time. Before I even started blogging 5.5 years ago and more likely around 13 to 15 years ago.

Oh and my daughter bumped into some people down in the town centre here, told them about her own story and then about me .. seems they want to talk to us. I was given a newspaper and thought .. 'ooh this seems strangely familiar' only to have it confirmed when I looked at their website address that they were a far left group. Well I am assuming .. far-left.

Remember what I said about the history of revolutions? Well take a look at their website address …


Even the Financial Time has reported on these Social Mobility Commission resignations but then .. they are bean counters that failed to see the missing beans and .. this involves politics and Theresa May directly and sooo .. means uncertainty and so mean money .. so yeah, once thought about not that surprising, lol ..

Financial Times ..


Sky News ..


Tuesday, 1 November 2016

THE DEATH LIST

Yup ... those posts are still coming thick and fast about the government and ... well ... it seems to actually be having an effect?

A guy just stated on DPAC's Facebook page a little piece in response to something many Tory MP's have come out with about them being named on Facebook. You will have to look up DPAC on Facebook to see these posts but I dare say there are several disability groups and charities that are also having story after story being posted.

Well that is ... all except for Scope who laughingly seem to think that what the government is doing and planning to do is a good idea.

Goodbye Scope, it was not nice knowing you!

Anyhow what has been reported on ... newstoad.net, never head of it before, is that Tories are complaining about there names being posted up regarding what they are doing and planning to do to the welfare state and disability benefits in particular.

Wait, what?!

Hang on a moment there ... this report states that Tory MP after Tory MP is complaining to having the finger pointed at them for the changes to the welfare state? Umm ... why?

Sorry but I was under the impression that these changes were intended to aid disabled people, yeah yeah it is all bullshit that their voters just lap up?

The real reason?

Though know it is bullshit and as I keep stating they already have this country in a very dark place and they want to lead us into even darker places. There IS such an area of publishing in the book industry known as 'History'! I have stated from the outset four years ago that in years to come these future books of the past well not reflect kindly on them.

Now I think Iain Duncan-Smith realised this, read it somewhere and maybe even seen it on here and thought 'Oh crap! I don't want none of that, thank you very much!'?

Maybe the Tory MP's are warning their closest friends and allies within the party and this realisation is going round?

Remember now the title of the piece is "Stop naming us"2 say MPs who voted for disability benefit cuts.

There is something in the comments section that is of particular interest ...

https://newstoad.net/2016/03/10/stop-naming-us-say-mps-who-voted-for-disability-benefit-cuts/

Someone who commented on the site gives a long list of names of people who have died as a result of benefit changes ... it is shockingly long and he states it is not all and provides a link to a WordPress blog ...

I just did a count up and there are 67 in the list of names of people who died through what it calls 'benefit related deaths' ..

https://welfaretales.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/list-of-welfare-related-deaths-of-the-uks-sick-and-disabled/

Dear God the list is long and who knows if it is a complete list?!

What is worse is that number is going to grown now they have made certain changes and then it will grow exponentially when the other changes they kept from the public come into effect.

It will increase faster over the next three years up to 2020 and then for the following five years the list of dead people from benefit related causes will grow even faster.

Edit: Ahh ... it is a Black Triangle list, they are a disabled group I only heard about recently.


Thursday, 21 July 2016

THE RETURN ATTACK REPORT

This is one of two reports, yes two and unrelated, I made out a couple of days back.

I had to try to remember to go back and alter figures and numbers. For what should become obvious reasons.

There is another report I am intending to publish that is very much like this one, but on a totally different subject of embezzling I am kind of involved in. This will show an even longer list of organisations than this one.

The list will be mostly public services but with a few private companies thrown in there for good measure.

Just like this one this is till ongoing and likely will do for a couple of weeks, when it will then be safe to publish, to many months before finally being over.

Also I say 'this one' above but this one is more like 'these four'? Because there is the payments, the possibility of being made homeless, the possible neurological problem that could be and does have symptoms of a brain tumour along with the possible diverticulitis? So kind of four things.

Had any run-ins with any of the organisations I will include here? Or any that I will post about later? Or any that I have published about previously? Had your suspicions? Had any questions?

Well this is kind of what I do, try to answer your questions and at the same time show you the truth behind what is going on and where all the public's money is being wasted.

To do this and get the best picture across I have to publish everything I do, everything I send though not always and everything I get.

Due to my memory being extremely bad, and part of why I did it, I have noe made out a Neurology Report based on what I have found out myself, does not look or sound good.

I have also made out an embezzling report too to do with something else I am involved in too.

There is also and obviously the other .. thing which is firmly in limbo now and has been for around six months or more ... I simply do not think about it but get asked around once a month by two or three people.

ENJOY ..

THE RETURN ATTACK REPORT

Point: I have always preferred and used emails to phone-calls though I never knew why, just easier to list everything down so I did not forgot anything

Problem: Some hate using emails, there was also one other major problem going on

Reason: It become obvious I preferred emails to phone-calls because of my memory problems, as I can think about it and get it down … I told them all I have memory problems

  • Help – Advice - Advocacy
  • People I sent reports to, so that they realise, watch (blogs), help others and perhaps help me
  • ..
  • Citizen's Advice 30th June [POSITIVE THUS FAR]
  • (Helping though not answered second email question for 5 days, 11th July, phoned and arranged appointment, unaware of facts I emailed them about)
  • Voiceability 14th July
  • (Awaiting answer from 14th July, 7 days)
  • Mind in Enfield 11th July [POSITIVE THUS FAR]
  • (Awaiting answer from 11th July, 7 days after third different email address)
  • FMA UK
  • (For some reason told me how to diagnose FMS - lol)
  • UK Fibromyalgia
  • (Also bizarrely told me how to diagnose FMS - lol, same day)
  • Anxiety UK 11th July
  • (Said they cannot advise, told me to contact Mind – same day)
  • Welfare Rights 11th July
  • (Awaiting answer from 11th July, 10 days)
  • Shelter UK 10th July
  • (Unable to help via email address wonder if the actually ever do)
  • Enfield Disability Action 15th July
  • (Contacted 15th July 2016, 6 days)
  • Scope
  • (Contacted 16th July)
  • Various Solicitors
  • (Kents Solicitors, Foster & Foster)

  • All Told Key Points (plus many others)
  • ..
  • Dozen Pains plus
  • Loss Use Legs (Only told later as only happened later, 12th July)
  • Now constant weak left Thigh
  • Anxiety Attacks
  • Suicidal
  • High Blood Pressure
  • Made out reports for CAB, Mind, Neurology (Hospital)

  • Wondering if I will be calling on cancer charities in couple months time?
  • Wondering if it will be just as above in couple months time?
  • Two areas of body to be checked, both ends!
  • Like no cancer charities and a friend and I were the only ones that looked after a friend while he dies of kidney cancer!


The Attitudes

In the world of some it is still 1980 and nobody has memory problems and everyone has a phone, bit weird for a homeless charity, don't you think?

Land lines need homes and due to mobiles very few public land-line phones .. soo who you gonna call .. and how you gonna call?

I contacted all of the above 6 or 7 years back. This was because I had, and stated, a disability but that I believed it was being ignored by the NHS so it can be ignored by the DWP and local councils. I had lost my DLA and had been trying to get my disability diagnosed to extreme resistance … later just repeatedly lied.

None helped and many just existed to help non-English speaking people to fill in forms and answer questions.

Summing Up Help & Advice Agencies

Now I actually have my diagnosis, have had a situation arise I have made openly known on here and have had my disability flare up and threaten to put me in a wheelchair temporarily and for good. Caused by the very people, through actions or inactions, that are actually tasked to help, respect and support me.

In other words each and every one of them failed and I assured them all that I was telling the truth and that by helping me see a private Doctor would easily prove I was right about my health and therefore right about the NHS & the DWP.

Each and every one receives public money and portray themselves as organisations that help with a section of society, broad, or specific groups of society, those with certain ailments.

I wondered if any of them actually did anything and in all cases I was in a building I only ever saw people waiting of ethnic origins for all of them. This was odd because I was often told my English people of the difficulties they had had and was always hearing how those of ethnic origins were getting help, either from them themselves or people that had neighbours or friends from an ethnic background. A lot of people working and getting paid via the public purse or donations that were only filling in forms.

I said that this was wrong. I said why it was wrong and I have said for well over four years where it would lead to.

Conclusion

The result of the European Union Referendum finally proved my point. Over twelve million people stated they were pissed. You can bet your bottom dollar that half the eleven million that voted to stay were pissed too but too scared to vote leave, so 17 million.

I think you can take it for granted a sizeable percentage that voted to remain were of ethnic minorities that wanted to get friends and family into the UK or even just getting their own people over here for a fee?

That means that around 75%, at an estimate, of the UK are pissed with the way things are and most of them seem to be quoting the influx of foreigners and the sudden waves of migrants.


  • How long does it take the organisations that only help ethnics to realise everyone is pissed about it that pays their wages?
  • How long does it then take them to change, or do they just ignore what everyone know thinks because they see themselves as either superior or more intelligent?

Wednesday, 6 April 2016

WADING THROUGH THE SEA OF HELP (Part 2 - SCOPE)

Well there is a tidal wave of responses ...

..well just two..out of about thirty, lol!

Anyway one I approached before was Scope.

I mean it does not matter to me if they are a charity ... or claim to be anything else. There are dozens of these organisations out there all being funded somehow via the British Taxpayer or some quirky and suspect donations system, what IDIOTS donate to these organisations that do nothing?

Or do said organisations just lie or give a false impression out about what they do?

In the email response below you will note that, despite me only asking where I could get help to get funding to help towards something I have spent a small fortune and three and a half years of my life on along with helping other victims, I am answered in an insulting way.

You will note that in the email there are remarks about disabled people asking for grants for 'holidays'?!

WHAT THE FUCK?!

Not too bright these people are they?

I was bloody offended that what I had requested was no more than asking for a free holiday or a 'free lunch'.

From an organisation that has God knows how much money handed to them by either the British taxpayer or naive and stupid people, being misled that said organisations do more than they actually do.

How much trouble have you seen in the TV news and the tabloids over disabled people since the austerity period started?

Where, oh where have any of these people been during that time?

The odd representative appearing on TV on the odd occasion for his salary stating how hard done by we are an dhow the government treats us badly?

How about taking millions upon millions in donations for doing fuck all when those donations could go STRAIGHT to help those that are disabled?!

LMAO!

You will note that I am a little stern about her tone and insinuation in my reply to her lengthy email?

God I need to do a front crawl to get through the sea of people and organisations wanting to help me as ... oh ... no wait, there are only two out of 30 plus! LMAO!


EMAILS ..

Dear Rosie

I did not ask for a grant for a holiday and I find it bloody rude that you would suggest that what I was enquiring about was no different to asking for a free holiday.

Believe me there is a belief of a group of people getting a free holiday, or free lunch, but it is NOT on the side of disabled people but is in fact with those claiming to be of help and being no help at all or very, very little.

How do you get your funding then?

Call it a ‘Freedom Of Information’ request, something I have made extremely popular the last five years.

Martin Haswell BSc

Sent from Mail for Windows 10



From: Helpline
Sent: 06 April 2016 11:33
To: Martin Haswell
Subject: RE: Letter for helpline

Hi Martin,

It very much depends on what type of help you are looking for as to what is available and where to access it.  Medical help? Are you facing financial hardship?  Do you need care services?  Does your house need adaptations or equipment?   We can certainly point you in the right direction. 

To address your query, the process of ‘registering disabled’ doesn’t really exist anymore – there are a few councils still keeping lists but they are non-compulsory, and exist more for monitoring purposes than to access services these days. 

In terms of accessing universal statutory provision,  ‘official recognition’ of disability is normally either determined through the equality act definition of disability, (especially when there are issues arising from employment or discrimination) although in many cases, being in receipt of a disability benefit, such as PIP, DLA or Attendance Allowance.  

Occasionally, organisations like local authorities will conduct their own assessments to see if an individual qualifies for the product or service they are providing – examples include care needs assessments from local councils, or the discretionary criteria for a blue badge. 

With increasing pressure on councils to provide social care to more people for less money, eligibility thresholds have become harder to meet.  The cuts to the Independent Living Fund did not help either and government cuts to council budgets have compounded this impact considerably.    

The migration from DLA to PIP has meant that some people are not eligible for the same financial support as they once were and pressure to cut welfare provision has had an impact on how benefits are assessed and administrated.  It all contributes to what is available – more people need help and there is less money to provide it.

The same can be said of advice services – government cuts to legal aid severely impacted national provision of local support.  Two examples include the Citizens’ Advice Service and Shelter, both huge advice-giving organisations delivering services in local communities.  Many of these have either closed or are running on volunteers with limited training, restricted opening hours, with huge waits and limited ability to help – particularly where casework or formal representation would have been helpful.   There are still advice services out there but not with the same consistent national coverage – it can be a postcode lottery, and what they offer can vary greatly. 

Often, being in receipt of one type of help can ‘passport’ a person to be able to access other things – for example receiving the high rate mobility component of a disability benefit can enable a claimant to join the Motability Scheme, or receiving the care component can mean they get a free carers ticket at the cinema.  

In terms of what the charity sector does, it’s quite difficult to summarise because, as you’ve highlighted, there are many different organisations working in this sphere and each will run things their own way.  I can perhaps explain how Scope is structured and hopefully this will illustrate how charities typically operate in terms of service provision.

Scope receives no government funding or grants – we rely entirely on donations and our own fundraising activities (for example charity shops).  This allows us to campaign and lobby with party impartiality – it means we can work, and where necessary criticise, the government of the day, whoever they may be.  Campaigning, research and influencing work are a big part of what we do and we’re proud of what we’ve achieved in this area.  For example, protecting PIP from the 2014 welfare cuts, or working on the Extra Costs Commission.  
Alongside this work, Scope also runs services, and an information department. (The helpline is part of the information department).  We take calls, emails and social media enquiries from disabled people about a hugely broad range of things related to disability, often providing emotional support at times of crisis and providing information that is transformative – for example explaining the benefits system to someone who has just become disabled and doesn’t know where to start in accessing support, and telling them about local advice services who can sometimes do casework or advocacy for the disabled person.    Information provision is a really important part of what we do these days, especially since the government cut funding for legal aid for benefits advice (this was how most Citizens’ Advice Bureaus and Shelter advice services were funded, and many have shut down / reduced their service provision dramatically as a result).  Providing information is a way of reaching a large volume of disabled people and giving them the knowledge they need to take action themselves.

On top of this, the information team also works on maintaining accurate website content, research, making our content as accessible as possible, reaches as many disabled people as possible, and sometimes partnering with other organisations whom we can learn from, or who can learn from us.  For example, we’re just finishing a project with the Scouts, who wanted to do more to make Scouting inclusive.   
We run the Online Community which is a section of our website that disabled people, their carers, family, friends and interested professionals can use to chat, ask questions, and talk about disability and life as a disabled person.  We get really good feedback about this from our users.

Alongside the information provision, we also run some services in local communities.  In some circumstances, we receive payment from local authorities to deliver these.  Typically, local authorities will pay for the cost of a place for a disabled child at one of our high-support schools or colleges, if they can’t be well accommodated in a mainstream school.   Or, they might pay for a member of Scope care staff to deliver home-based or community-based care services, or respite breaks.  We also have some supported living services that provide accommodation and support to disabled people to live independently.   People are welcome to pay for this directly to us but most need the support of their local authority as they can’t afford the costs on their own.   The local authority needs to assess a person’s needs to work out if they are eligible for help, and to establish what their means to contribute financially might be, and so on.

So, we can sometimes operate as a provider of statutory services.   Sometimes this can confuse people- they see charities primarily as a source of benevolence, and feel that we should  provide these things free of charge.  Unfortunately this is not possible.  We need to be paid for what we do in order to provide a professional service that meets the standards which we feel disabled people deserve – our staff are trained, qualified, supported and supervised.  They work to the highest standards and we couldn’t do this using volunteers.  Additionally, it would be improper for us to use the donations of members of the public to provide or supplement what are statutory services that technically, they’ve already paid for through their taxes.    

However, where services are not statutory, we are often able to provide them for free to service users when we have raised enough in donations to do it.  For example, we’ve got a befriending project for parents of disabled children – we train parents of a disabled child to give them professional listening and support skills, and pair them with a parent whose child has been recently diagnosed.  We also have sleep consultants who are able to work with families where a disabled child’s disrupted sleep is affecting the whole household. 

We believe that disabled people should have the same opportunities as anyone else, and so through campaigning to improve the lives of disabled people nationally, through influencing government, contributing to policy making, and changing attitudes in society.  The alternative paints an uncertain picture- leaving disabled people at the mercy of primarily benevolence-model charities, whose ability to ‘bridge the gap’ is insecure in the long term – charitable incomes fluctuate, dependent on current social attitudes towards charitable giving and many other things.    

Sometimes we hear from people who are hoping Scope can give them a grant for a holiday, or for personal ‘life improvement’ for want of a better word– for example house renovations.  Unfortunately this isn’t something that we do.  Generally speaking, charities don’t supplement things that have a statutory source of funding with their own funds, and for things that don’t (eg holidays) because they are perceived as luxuries rather than essentials, there isn’t the funding to be able to offer this broadly enough.   This is particularly true for disabled adults- there can be a bit more available for disabled children.  There are some smaller charities that do offer grants here and there – and there is a pretty good database of what is available on the Turn2Us website. 

I’m not sure from your email whether you’re just doing some general research and thinking, or if there is something specific that you’re looking for help with.  If the latter, feel free to share some details with me and I’d be happy to advise.

I hope this information has been useful.

Kind Regards,


Rosie
Helpline Information Officer
Scope helpline
0808 800 3333