Dear all siting in my living room where I have been spending my nights this is my sixth night in a row where I have not slept , it's 3 am and I thought why not just Write something here to keep you informed or up to date with what's been happening, or in this case what has not happened. ATU has been actively investigating and I am grateful for that. Due to their investigation they are now in fact suspended two members of staff. It's two separate investigations where upon a different incident or abuse happened a few days later after the first case of abuse where Ste sustained a clavicle collarbone breakage. While atu is active in making sure this situation won't happen again. Police is unfortunately sitting idly and doing nothing. They haven't started any investigation contrary to what I was led to believe, and the DC that was dealing with the case have not bothered to keep me informed not by making a simple call or by email. Nothing. Zilch. Nada. I want to also acknowledge that although atu did nothing to help my son, I subsequently have understood that they were following advice from the GP, however I still think they just have gone to A&E regardless of that idiot GP advice. I want to let you know on my conversation with him this so called doctor. As I was told that doctor told them to sit on it and see how Ste would go, as he obviously has no idea the difference between a broken bone and a lump. A lump he still maintained it was. I as a non medical person could see it was a bone sticking out. So as I am talking to this fool , and telling him first of you should have seen clearly that it was not a Lump but a broken bone and even if that was not clear to you you have a duty of care and as such you sir should have told atu go to A&E and see if they do an ex ray, Not say go back to atu and sit on it for over a week then come back if that lump still there, WTF is this dr doing? Anyway I said all that to him further more I also told him that he aside from having a duty of care he had a duty to raise alarm, But want to know his response to all that ? He said will all due respect its not my duty to do any of that did my job as best of my ability And neither is my duty to report nor is my duty as a GP to send your son to A&E because I don't know what if it's a broken clavicle or a lump I said then using your words with all due respect you are an irresponsible doctor how dare you say that You do indeed have a duty of care and you uphold a duty to a vulnerable young person adult an old person or a child, are you saying if a normal child came in with a parent with a suspicion lump as you call it you would ignore it? With all due respect you are an arse. And I hung up phone. Now for something else. Question to those parents around the country whether you have a child in an atu or a child , when I say child I mean if any age , they are your child no matter how old they are. Anyway so atu or residential home residential school , at home In fact mostly at home I will say , I know only to well about that , you need help and you ask beg , you keep on asking and begging Then you fight and you scream obscenities, and that call for help goes unanswered no matter what you are asking for your loved one, help that should be a given wether if it's respite wether if it's help at home ,or indeed help with paying for petrol or train tickets, to go visit your loved one... it does not matter what it is you need, that you are asking for it's an absolute must that parents get that help unless of course you are holding a fat bank account with a few million to spare , in which case then you very well can afford for that help, but undoubtedly most parents in our situation regardless of social standing, i.e. You maybe a lawyer I know some parents that are, or a school teacher a nurse again I know those parents to , who have special needs children some in atus some have been and are out now some are at home without any help , but just because this people are professionals middle class, does not mean they have that kind of money to spend on their beloved son daughter, when I was working. Working class me. Most of my wages went on traveling and paying for food cloths toiletries on Stephen. I never had enough money to go on Holliday or on a nice date out or even to the movies, a true fact that, most of us don't do any of those things regardless if we are or aren't working professionals because every penny goes on our beautiful children, we have to work on that just a little more then those whose child is healthy, anyway so as I was saying, why do we have to fight that extra hard when it should be a given... we did not ask for people to send our children to this Helholes we did not ask them to be sent hundreds of miles way So naturally CCG and LA should pay or help pay for petrol and train tickets.. only recently a case was taken to court and a parent was denied that right. So so wrong. And so here's the thing we parents have to fight extra hard to get some help. And I am no different from anyone else in my situation, have to voice that very loud, but I am mostly a dog that barks I don't bite, however the other day I sent a very loud and very rude email to islington, the email was not polite was a strong email from a strong little warrior mum as some of my friends say, the email was very strong no politiness at all, in fact if I remember correctly I did say why don't you put somewhere where, I won't say where but I am sure you get my meaning lol yes that rude , what it was not was that it wasn't being said directly to the people I sent to , in fact the man I sent it to at Islington is a wonderful hard working and totally understanding caring man who has done amazingly at his job. Thanks to him a lot of services have changed, and in fact Islington has one of the best teams on transforming care and with this man there at adult services things have changed so much for the better , islington in fact are on the way to lead by example, I so wish some of my friends had a local authority like I have , I am extremely proud to be an islington person. I do hope the whole of UK does the wonderful work that islington has been doing for the last 2 years. So publicly although I already have sent him an email in response to his apology email , I sent my own apologies, and I must say again it was not a personal attack on him, he had done the best, it was an attack somewhere else I just had to tell him because I did not know who should have the brunt of my anger Lol So here goes dear Jim thank you for being you and so honest and kind, therefore I want to say to you only no oneelse at the department, just you Jim I am deeply deeply sorry for my rude email it really was not a personal attack on you. So guys here it goes the other question that begs answers. Why do we have to fight so hard? As you see by my apologies to Jim, why do we have to be rude obnoxious nasty and swearing at LA and CCGs and CQCs in order to get something that it should be so naturally given to you and your child? The system upon system is failing our children. The whole country and political parties, Your MPs and government, local leslations, parliament, they are all failing our children and falling parents. Do you know that most of parents with children with LDs suffer from mental health issues? (ironic that this weeks is mental health awareness) alcoholism and divorce, most parents with children with LD and or or autism are divorced as I am , or separated. When is the country going to wake up and decide that they need to help and protect our most vulnerable people in our society? When will Drs lawyers judges MPs parliamentarians, will stop and think the harm they are doing to our vulnerable families? And say we as a society need to get this families help. We need to stand by them not against them? Well I turned politician just now without realising it. Lol. As always thank you so much my lovely friends. Much love and hugs to you Xx. Leo.