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In my first contact with Sarah Hands – James’s new social worker – she still attempted to argue that the Mental Capacity Act provides provision for incapacitated adults to choose what they want to do and therefore James does not need to see his family if he doesn’t want to. Well it does provide this provision and I don’t disagree with that however the broad thrust of the act requires carers to act in the incapacitated young adults best interests and that requires recognizing the extent of the incapacitated person’s incapacity. If my 21 year old son had a mental capacity of a 12 year old it would be no problem for me of he wanted to skip his 10 minute Skype session with his family on a particular week. However he only has a mental age of two and Solihull Social Services are still not ware of this after James being a customer for 8 years.
“Two year olds are not allowed to see their family if they choose not to” – Sara Hands
“I have been notified this morning that the carers are unable to support James to the day centre to carry out the skype call.
The care provided to James involves James being supported to decide on his activity. James has chosen to go on a journey that does not allow time to come to the centre. I have been advised that trying to get James to change his planned route has resulted in him become distressed.” Sarah Hands
Sarah is clearly stating – to paraphrase – that “two year olds are not allowed to see their family if they choose not to”
Here is an extract of a recent letter to a Solihull Council solicitor:
“Can we see James on Skype please. He only saw us 3 times in the summer holiday due to his social worker’s (Sarah Hands) lack of knowledge of his mental capacity and reasoning skills. She labours under the misapprehension of it being normal for two year old children not to be able to see their families if the two year old chooses not to. She doesn’t understand that two year olds don’t have the capacity to make such a complex decision and she doesn’t understand that James’s micro-cephalic and malformed brain doesn’t contain sufficient neurons for him to make such a complex decision in the same way as a two year old doesn’t have the capacity to make such a complex decision. He simply doesn’t have the capacity to understand what he’s giving up if a negligent social worker or psychologist takes him at his word when asked a question such as “do you want to see Sasha”.
Solihull Social services can hire as many negligent social workers and psychologists as they want in order to justify their abuse of my son but they cannot get past the fact that my son’s brain doesn’t contain enough neurons to make such a complex decisions AND understand what he is giving up as a result of making such a decision.
It’s shocking that Solihull social services have reverted back to their ridiculously flawed argument that two year olds are not allowed to see their families if they choose not to. Their ridiculous argument has been dismissed for the last two years and its shocking that they are still making this argument and the more they make this argument the more it will be dismissed.”
My son’s brain scan interpretation carried out by James’s paediatric Neurologist, supplied to me by his general practitioner, clearly states that the malformations in his brain will leave him forever incapacitated at circa two year old on his capacity and this is why he still wears nappy’s and watches the Teletubbies.
Psychologists are inferior to doctors
In the discipline of psychology there is no paradigm that all psychologists subscribe to. There are instead several schools of thought and different psychologists subscribe to different schools of thought. Conversely, in medicine, all doctors recognize the discipline of medicine and all doctors recognize radiography and accept that CT scans and MRI scans actually do reflect and portray the state of an individual’s health and the extent to which the patient is in good health or poor health and the limits of his capacity.
Therefore I will not accept any psychologist evidence that describes my son’s capacity at higher than circa two years old. Any such psychologists’s report is mere superfluous balderdash and such a psychologist will need to be exposed in the public interest for aiding and abetting the abuse of a severely incapacitated young adult.
There is no reason why James’s true mental capacity cannot be recognized and I will help him to get it recognized.