This was an extremely difficult watch last night. The level of failure, the development of the culture at Skye House and ultimately the failure for this to be addressed and the flat rehearsed political answers from the head guy spoken to. Some things I took from it... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... - ThreadSky

gavfromromford.bsky.social • 113 days ago

This was an extremely difficult watch last night. The level of failure, the development of the culture at Skye House and ultimately the failure for this to be addressed and the flat rehearsed political answers from the head guy spoken to. Some things I took from it...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027zpv

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gavfromromford.bsky.social•113 days ago

When I wrote my diss about adult experiences being detained one of the things the people I spoke to raised was how often the peeps they remembered just showed basic and consistent kindness. This is remembered once they're better as is the counter... the experiences in this doc back that up...

gavfromromford.bsky.social•113 days ago

One of the other things was that they were able to reflect that they knew they were ill and that could be hard for staff but they are extremely vulnerable and at the whims of who is working there and a culture of 'them' against 'me' can quickly develop and this will be created by staff actions...

gavfromromford.bsky.social•113 days ago

So, how do you stop this culture from occuring. It's tough in a sector (like care) which sees high turnover, high stress and low pay. These are conditions that allow a culture like that to develop and thrive and no amount of Scot Gov mission statements will stop it however well intentioned they are.

gavfromromford.bsky.social•113 days ago

But if you don't address those issues, care about the service and provide the level of training and pay and support necessary you're going to create burnt out cynics who will restrain someone and talk over them like they aren't there. And once that's embedded that's your workplace culture.

gavfromromford.bsky.social•113 days ago

It also highlights, again, the murky and underesourced world of how Mental Health Detention works. Where was the MHO when that lass was detained and marched back to hospital? Either that was signed off by a social worker, in which case there a huge questions to be asked...

gavfromromford.bsky.social•113 days ago

... or, more likely according to the Mental Welfare Commision's numbers, an MHO wasn't consulted before detention took place because they couldn't get one which is a massive failure because I struggle to believe any MHO with experience of children's social work would have sanctioned that.

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