Gwynedd Council Fail.: Why Blog About Cyngor #Gwynedd Council ?

I feel it is time for a recap of the events that led to this blog being created.

The 2010 Independent Investigation - with all points upheld - was highly
critical of Gwynedd SS and their management team in their treatment of
an autistic child. But the recommendations of the Report were not acted
upon and the child and family were ignored.

Our local MP, Liz Savile Roberts was contacted for help but her very
good friend at the council, Marian Parry Hughes, intervened and Liz then
ignored our request for a meeting to provide her with our evidence. Liz
has continued to ignore our correspondence.

At the time, the child was on a CIN plan managed by a social worker
whose attitude beggared belief, culminating in the social worker not
bothering to turn up for a review of the child's case. A meeting that
he, himself, had organised with parents and a teacher, letting them all
down and wasting everybody's time.

A complaint was raised about his behaviour and that of the Head of
Services. To say it was dealt with badly is an understatement and a
Stage 2 complaint repeatedly refused. (The Ombudsman has since
recommended that ALL officers involved in the complaint be given
re-training in the Statutory Complaints procedure)

So I began to blog the story of how Gwynedd Council have behaved.

I have been careful to name only those officers who have behaved badly
and deliberately not named one manager whom, I believe, had her arm
twisted by more senior managers to misrepresent the Investigation of the
censoring and mishandling of personal information and the Council's own
data breach.

Gwynedd Adult services were recently lambasted by the Ombudsman for how
they treated a young, autistic man. This case was only brought to the
Ombudsman's attention because the Complaints department had refused to
accept their complaint, also.

  If those named would like the right to reply they have only to contact
me. I am also willing to consider and/or publish their version of events
if they so wish.

I would also like to thank those who have supported the family in our
attempt to access services for 'high functioning' autistics and those
children that continue to fall between the gaps in services.


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Cyngor Gwynedd, A Missing Letter And An MP.

And a quick recap....

A stage 2 complaint from 2010 showing serious failings in the Children and Family Department at Cyngor Gwynedd was upheld by Independent Investigators.

From 2014, meetings and decisions made concerning a child's future were being held behind closed doors by managers and a social worker without the knowledge of the parents or professionals involved in the case. 

Worse was the fact that a social worker and other professionals were being ignored....as they raised concerns the child's needs were not being met.

A social worker who acted without thought for the code of ethics that he has agreed to uphold.

Or worse - a social worker who has been instructed by managers to behave so....inappropriately and against the interests of a vulnerable child - the client.

The jury is still out.

A failure of the children and families department to deliver the services granted by Gwynedd social services and when they finally appeared - after having their arm twisted by a solicitor - were shockingly bad.

So bad that a complaint was raised and which Aled Gibbard closed  - against statutory policy - and also without informing anyone !?!?

Kenealy Jones - you said a search was made for the letter to Mr Gibbard he claims he never received. Did you look in the bins ?

I have sighted your email to your colleague, Aled, voicing your concern about where this case could go.

The service(!) provided involved the support worker - yes him of the grunts and no feedback - leaving the client alone in a car when he attended to his own bits and pieces.

You did read the risk assessment, Iolo - yes ?

Is it council policy to leave vulnerable clients alone when in their care ?

All of this even before I asked the #Plaid_Cymru MP, Liz Saville Roberts for support.

Liz, who shook my hand, looked me in the eye and said "vote for me... and contact me if you ever need help".

MP's tut - some of them will say anything to get your vote.