Have just been told by the NAS that have been put on a new scheme they have just started, D had told am the managers had brought name up in the meeting of another service user who is needing to move to a new residential home,so am on the list!!! finally,a new placement,after that big fuck up with moving back to the shawe road institution [they decided to completely re design the place instead,and have been back since-they not even started on it].
the NAS will be running several new residential homes as part of this scheme,they're for autistics with high complex needs who are too C/N and challenging for their other residentials [end up clashing with others easy],they have got their own developers in on the scheme,who are willing to adapt all the homes to suit autist needs [not sure if they were also meaning the homes were going to be built or whether they are just going to adapt some],including things like padding the walls and sound proofing.
Here's the shitty part,this scheme will only be happening if the council agree to fund the homes,but the NAS has said that the council will make profit on them unlike with their own council residential homes so this should be a big help as the council care about money most of all.
theyve also got to convince the council to transfer am over to NAS care completely,which they have had trouble doing up to now because council don't want to pay the extra money.
Also,have now got a new autism specialist [pyschiatrist] called Dr Raja,part of the ss LD team-she has taken over from previous autism pysch am had who retired [John Birkett],she is going to be sorting those council bastards out to make sure they move am somewhere suitable in not too much time,and she's coming to sort out all the constant changes that goes on here,as well as the extreme sensory overload in this place,just one example-none of them care that by replacing the table and chairs in the lounge set off meltdowns and has meant have not been able to go in the lounge for over a week,it will take months before being used to this change-they knew about this but did it anyway-they didnt even say they were getting a new table-thats twice in a row,the other one got broke,in other words she's going to make this place autistic friendly!
She is also going to help am with lots of things,and also going to prescribe something for sleep-those who know am will know have been trying desperately to get sleep medicine off doctors for years,so this will be a big victory.