Birmingham City Council Adult Social Care

My son who is severely disabled goes to Fairway Day centre everyday for a couple of hours and it gives me some time for myself. He likes it there. He gets lots of help and I get the time for myself to help my mind.

The social worker has been so helpful for my 25 year old son who is severely disabled. They arranged for some support before covid but he didn't get chance to go. After, when everything started opening up again she contacted me and arranged for my son to go to a day centre for an hour a day. She even pushed for more hours for him. She explained everything to me so well and looked after us all so well. I am so thankful for them.

When asked to see the new social worker they disregard my queries about mums care. They disregarded my moms condition and won't look into them even when I ask them to.

They are saying that the financial situation isn't going to affect services but lots of people waiting have made referrals back in March. 6-8 month wait. It's such a long wait.

I haven't found any issues with them. I find them helpful. I have been getting the support from them too.

They took my sister away whilst I was in hospital for 5 days as mom was elderly and she couldn't care for her. They didn't tell us where she was going. I had to call the police to find out where she was taken. They didn't communicate well or let us know anything. It is amazing how someone else can have a say on someone's care. It's not fair.

It took 3 months to visit me. They asked if I wanted to go into a care home, if I has a pension and what my income was. They were a waste of time. My daughter will look at the financial side of it. The Alzheimer team told me I wont be able to cope with my condition at the end of the line. Home care is expensive, £1000 per week, but the visitor did not discuss that with us in this regard. We do not know what we need to do with the financial side of it. We cannot afford long term care and now we have to wait for the next social worker to come out, but we don't know anything about waiting times.

Several contacts were made regarding needs not being met, care plan not being delivered and re-assessment required after there was no initial review when the care was first started (process not being followed). After months of getting nowhere, resorted to making a formal complaint and was asked to agree to informal. Stated that the opportunity for informal had been pending for 6 months and this was the only way to get the needed re-assessment.

One minute they're helpful the next minute they're not. They will send me here and there and everywhere I go they don't know what's going on. They are not very good at keeping me in the know.

One social worker there ruined my whole life. They left the organisation. They ended up sharing trauma with people who shouldn't have known. I ended up homeless because of them.