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 H Situation comment         page started April 2014  hidden page - Item 3

H = the Director - sometimes it means the org


Update 27 May 2015


Thanks CB.




Update 24 Jan 20015  -  a summary of main points is here


Updates 19 Jan 2015 are in this bold text.

Preamble

i)

This page identifies weakness within the H org and was sent mid-summer 2014 to those involved in the contract renewal.. No reply.  Updates 19 Jan 2015 are for a different readership.  

The crucial text is the update at 6a and 10  H being Anti-carerworld site.

 

At this stage, there is no structure to the page.  Topics are listed as I find them and as I remember them.   Ther  is no point in presenting a page in its final version if it is inappropriate. 

ii)

You are referred to many pages and more than a few are out of date.  No time to update.  Most of my computing is done during winter.  Update 19 Jan 2015 - sections etc have been removed as links out of date.

iii)

An initial comment on what follows. There's enough of it so far to justify a blunderbuss title.  Some. at least, of the suggestions strike the target.   However, the scale of H ignoring so many suggestions etc is clear evidence of prejudice.   

iv)

How can I acquire evidence for the H contract being extended "by negotiated decision rather than advertised"? (From an email sent by someone close to the bidding context.)


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1  Website

2  Links of no use

3  Private page

4  My help given

5  My report on CRD

6a  Songs and website help

6b  Surgeries

6c  Parent Carer Voice

7  Carer Forum - 1

8  Carer Forum - 2

9  Website out of date

10  Anti-carerworld site

11 I.T.

12  Emails


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1  Website

When the H website was down, notes were sent but ignored  - here.  It was down from mid-Sept to mid-Jan.


2  Links of no use

H website Home page carried updates from 15 January to 4 February which are here .   The page showed links which didn't work plus other irrelevant info..  The site was worked on by H to rectify the errors but no contact with me was made.


3  Private page

A private page for H  is here.  Note 7 refers to 2 above.


4  My help given

H was caught out (no website editing possible) so I supplemented the entirely inadequate info on the H website here

Before that there was a Carer rights Home page here


5  My report on CRD

After the event. I produced a lot of material - all ignored.  

Summary covering  proceedings  to half-time here.  My comment is here.  


6a  Songs and website help

i)

H - on Carers Rights Day 2103 included a singer who led the audience in one song.  That inspired me to recyle songs for such events and local groups etc. See Recycled songs Home page here H allowed me to use them twice only.  See earlier negotiation at 1a here.  

ii)

On 4 Oct, I sent H an email referring to a staff meeting and could I attend with song sheets.  She replied that she didn't understand what I had said.

iii)

I sent details of the songs to all staff by email on 10 Oct.  Reply by H herself - meeting can't accommodate me.    

iv)

On 17 Oct, I sent more song comment as seen at 8 and 9  here.  There's important comment about carer IT awareness and websites.  H is afraid of local groups creating websites.  I showed her how H can take control.  All ignored.

From 9 on that page is a link to an H song here.  As you see, it is light-hearted.  However, it calls for a response to making a DVD.  Ignored as all points therein have been ignored.


v)

Recycled songs Home page here.  


Update 19 Jan 2015


At 6a/1 it says

"Carers Rights Day 2103 included a singer who led the audience in one song."

In spite of all the encouragement to use my songs, an event in September of 2014, the same song leader was used again.  It affected me greatly and I left the meeting.


6b  Surgeries

At the CRD, GP prizes were awarded.  HL is the coordinator who announced the latest figures re surgeries signing up the H Charter.  I asked if the info was to be recorded in the mins.  It wasn't.  

I wrote a page querying the numbers here.  Ignored.

6c  Parent Carer Voice

Parent Carer Voice event, 6 December 2013  here  Wrote notes useful to mins sec.  Ignored


7  Carer Forum - 1

Ignored note on HCS Carer Forum - 17th July 2014 here


8  Carer Forum - 2

Minutes of a local forum in Ross - May 22 . They ignore a paper I had distributed and had commented on.  Paper to follow.    Spoke to the mins sec who has ignored my request for the mins to include my paper.


9  Website out of date

The H website is often out of date - the info may change but today it is current re May here.  


10  Anti-carerworld site

10.1  H Director  and one local worker spent two hours (Nov 2012)  in my local library trying to persuade me to eliminate this website.  The meeting was recorded.   

10.2
One notable interaction within the meeting

H spoke for a minute or two on a topic and conclude by asking me to feed back my understanding of what she had said.  I replied that I had understood all that she had said.

11  I.T.  

Lip service  was paid to my request to give a session as seen here.  No. 5 here ignored.

12  Emails
Looking through previous emails, my some of my requests are turned down fairly cordially while others were emphatic in disagreement. 



End of comment for the time being.  There's plenty more.

 

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