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I knew this was coming. & it still doesn’t wash. It just makes me more angry for the families I work with who have kids with more risky challenging behaviour who have had no, or very scaled down support through lockdown, and not asked elderly parents or family to help 1/ https://twitter.com/annmemmott/status/1264810040386637824">https://twitter.com/annmemmot...
Or give them a break. Kids left without their usual routines, playgrounds, loved family members when we can’t explain to them. Yes. Parents have got sick. Both of them. Still refusing to mix households. Because it’s not a life/death situation. Horrendously hard. Yes.
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/3 but no one wanted to put family members in danger unless absolutely essential. For one child, we were able to help with a specialist nanny. In full PPE for in home care, who quarantined with the family. They had relatives 200 miles away . Parents. Siblings.
/13 this seemed clear from the guidelines and rules. Unless both parents were very much too ill.nowhere did it say if you have an autistic kid and 1 sick with Covid parent it’s fine to jump in a car 300
Miles away to family because you all need support. Nope. Not buying it.
Miles away to family because you all need support. Nope. Not buying it.
/14 this is gaslighting straight up if they use this as an excuse. To make us feel media are unreasonable as is our anger. Tell me where are these extenuating circumstances we should have been advising our families existed? Playing the disability card just stinks. It stinks.
/8. I have gone to bed worrying about my kids. Do they have enough help? Will my support help? Is this kid going to accidentally injure themselves? Becuase the rules have had a huge huge impact on the wellness of these kids. Parents have stuck to the rules. To keep us all safe
/9 in dire situations. Hyperactive kids with no sense of danger in small fourth floor apartments . One or both parents sick. Afraid to take walks because kid may not understand 2m away. Afraid of going near the playground we can’t explain to the kid why he can’t go there anymore
/10. We read the rules. Again and again. Had to seek clarification and alteration that people with ID and /or autism can drive to a safer place a SHORT distance away for exercise and go out more than once. We did not see magic exceptions for families or kids. Not once .
/11 parents coped I’m impossible situations. The kids have been through hell themselves. To suddenly be told that is not noble or acting with integrity but actually implied they may be irresponsible in not ‘getting childcare’ is a complete slap in the face. it’s galling.
/4 but nowhere in the guidance could we see it being ok to have them come stay. At no point did they think we might get really sick, so it’s fine for us to go 200 miles. They got sick. Then badly. Then worried like hell. They did not want to put family at risk unless no choice.
/5 tell me , were they actually irresponsible? Stupid for interpreting the rules and going against instinct? Should they have gone as soon as the first parent fell ill? Child had risky behaviours due to frustration of lockdown and Intellectual disability / language delay.
