paulb

because even with all our love and effort. its simply not enough. it takes a multi discipline team of highly trained folks.to manage autism properly. if support is done properly you will produce a functional member of society. if not you will probably result in a person with serious problems. our other 3 children with a lot of effort have educated themselves. to uni level. however socially, emotionally they suffer. ive seen them suffer always same answer from schools we know better. i know for a fact my kids could have been handled very much better.

a very much easier read and i must say it shows a real interest. http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2010/07/19145422/0

m not insulting anyone or trying not to. 6 times more autistic people in orkney does raise concerns was speaking to a person in autism charity they were not impressed by Shetlands efforts. now you can have amazing skilled staff but if not spotted and diverted to service its a failed service. i have 4 children that lancashire and shetland failed to spot. one was seen twice by an ed phyc and still missed it. i see the pain and damage every day i find that offensive. lets not even mention sam. without a decent pediatrician none would have even have been diagnosed with dyslexia and dysplaxia. im sorry we dont have a decent service. its designed to not id people. either that or teachers need more training. there are roughly 4000 young folks on Shetland that means at least 40 are on the spectrum. if we believe the CDC its 1 in 68 or 59 children. 22000 population would mean 220 to 324 people possibly needing support of some type. i wonder why most are missed. could SIC cope if they were spotted. i wonder how much our poor mental health figures would react.

ive emailed Helen Budge twice. im just becoming annoyed. i suppose i had better let her answer

http://www.shetland.gov.uk/…/AutisticSpectrumDisorderPolicy… this was written at a cost of £30000 to scottish government. just 6k a page. ive tried to read it and it basically says nowt and no action.

probably is ours does the same. even with dampers shut it roars away. it does warm the water fast. and radiators. an oil system at the moment is meant to be cheaper to run at the moment but i cant see it staying low

try lerwick building centre jewsons. it was cheaper to buy south and ship up. we messed up and went to large. when working out cost chimney liner if needed and fitting is expensive.

the trust must make cut because its wasted millions. it must have always been obvious to the regulators that you really cant have councilmen sitting on it. you end up with a farce like this. just remember it was a councilman trying to bully the trust into continuing to pour an extra 1/4 million in council funds. just think its now council property run by council staff. yet the trust is expected to maintain them. can i just say no. the council has enough staff to do its own repairs. or are they telling us that the 2k a week charge does not cover operating costs. sound like a very poor business plan. remember all centres are nearly 100% full. either we have lazy management or incompetent. every private and charity care centre in this country will have a maintenance and refurbishment budget. paid from its clients fees.

we do need to ask over the years how many millions has been quietly passed over to SIC. you could say its for Shetlands benifit so its ok. but just look at the care centres for example. we must remember care of the elderly is a legal requirement placed on the council. either as commissioner or provider. it seems odd that a branch of the charity built them. when transferred to sic control how much was paid for a multi million pound investment. remember the council must provide the care. so why had the council not built care homes. due to the lack of fiscal responsibility the care homes are extremely expensive. and when the trust is paying just under 2.5 million a year supporting a service that should be funded by the council. with the new anderson school will the sports centre remain in trust control. are the trust being paid for the use schools use of there sports centres. the sic has a duty to provide pe. you do wonder what other little costs have been switched to the trust. just imagine say 3 million a year over the years of its existence. thats like 100 million of lost funds not earning interest. its clearly time for community control and returning to its original purpose. not as a bank of first call for the council. maybe then we can care for our old and needy.

its really clear what needs doing. it always has. the charity trust must be fully independent from the council. we need a wide body of normal Shetlanders to run it. not appointed mates friends x council members. i still think as a temporarily measure we should use community council members until we can sort a permanent solution. i do think its very wrong for a council member to be demanding the cut should be stopped. i do hope he treats SIC staff better. just think of the day Shetland is run properly.

1911 is just part of normal fee now. found match for peters ref its not his. sadly the soldier died in 1916. i would say scottish records are not harder just more expensive.

peter you have mail.

come on lets try to stay on topic op asked a question. now play nice.

i do understand why its a sensitive question. maybe a questionnaire and post on shetland times and news. possibly printed letter as well. with a possible idea of dropping some off at cab. and salvation army. being poor in a rich community is worse than were all are poor. its why i never bothered when i was young but it truly does stop your future development. i wanted to stay on into 6th form. i loved history but i was not able no money then to support post 16 school. funnily my great grandfather and mum faced the same. my kids are the first in my family line ever to do uni. so we are breaking new ground. wifes family it was assumed you would attend further or higher education. i was some what shocked by life on the dole. no reason why younger folks under say 20 should be on benefits.its wrecking lives. it would make sense to pay them to work. i really dont like workfare. the old yts and community service. helped loads away from the dole.

i was trying to be helpful. been trying not to be argumentative.

i just thought an journal from up here published in London would be interesting. just think what you could write about. our politics culture even daily lives are very different to city life.

(**MOD EDIT - name removed **) i was not talking about poverty.

why not. could try your old local newspaper.

yes the is povety about. some folks are indeed hungrey. some housebound old folks are often down to at most one meal a day. if a vulnerable person cant remain warm in their homes in 2015 then both nationally and as a community we have failed them. our most vulnerable folks should not be needing to wrap up warm and just remain in one room. sound advice but wrong to need to. if in one of the richest countries in the world we are still allowing folks to die of the cold we must be condemned. with the real attack on benefit claimants and there really is. the deliberate use of sanctions for imagined faults means people are regularly falling below what even our government says is the minimum to survive.hence the need for food banks. bevin would be shocked. another issue often missed is our cost of living with rent being high, food costs very high with no discount retailer, transport is very limited and expensive if you live out wit lerwick. lighting and heating being needed for longer and more often and no mains gas fuel costs are limited. using social inequality definitions clearly show our poor are very badly off. forget the views forget culture and sports what do we do for our poor. i suggest we need to re look at what we are using our oil money on. just because our central government is betraying those in need does not mean we as a small community should

http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2008/10/08/curfew-for-bb-pistol-shooter and 200 hours community service for assaulting an 80 year old 2 nurses and a doctor. im seeing a trend here if you do anything whilst drunk you seem to walk with a slap of the wrists. im sorry to say i must now condem sheriff mann being drunk is an aggravating factor NOT mitigation. sentence fairly. if 4assault deserves 4 years then 4 assaults on a vunerable adult and care staff must deserve time. im now sounding bitter please dont name others. its just possible he does have problems we dont know of. however if sheriff mann continues to sentence softly in relation to violent drunks we will end up with a death in the near future.

we need to examine the news from the 1950s-early 1970s to see what crime was like then http://www.shetland-museum.org.uk/downloads/data/unkans/Unkans_no33.pdf a bit earlier but still violence Judicial Declaration by Robert Aitken (16), junior, unmarried, son of and residing with Robert Aitken senior, for theft (now admitting to the crime). Date 15 January 1861 Judicial Declaration by Magnus Sinclair, (20), unmarried, labourer, 10 Fox Lane, Lerwick, for theft (now admits to the crime).2 January 1882 Judicial Declaration by Peter Johnston, (18), unmarried, Freefield, Lerwick, for theft, (now admits to the crime).2 January 1882 Report concerning breach of Prevention of Crime Act 1871 by Charles M. Anderson, stoneware merchant, Lerwick, after purchasing goods from John Gourock or Gordon.29 December 1887 Report against Samuel Anderson, of no fixed residence, for Assault on Kate Clark, Lower Lochside, Lerwick. Accused has been previously convicted of similar crime.13 October 1903 Letter by Thomas Robertson, Stove: 'The awfull crime of theft has arisin to such a height here, as renders it intolerable to be borne'.30 May 1838 'Prosecutions under Yell Sheep Dipping Order 1913' (fine of £5 against David Moar was out of proportion to his crime) i wonder if we could see a modern day translation of the 1604 law book refered to.may make interesting reading

cost of decommissioning a reactor must be added to above cost. at worst we would be left with a hundred lumps of concrete. not a radioactive blot that will be dangerous in a 1000 years. coal/oil needs carbon capture to be usable once its.been added and if it works you again left with a waste product that is hard to deal with.

i think we will be hearing about the cable in the near future.they are interdependent so at some point it will need to be built. so im expecting news shortly. of course its been a done deal from the start. welcome to the honest world of shetland politics. its been the same since the first oil deal. we sold our soul to big business. ask why we are not recieving any oil money. no one has asked about the gas deal just remember who agreed that one. if SS want to fight on find a way to take control of the charity trust. get it to be a real charity. not a bank for the SIC. look at alaska for what we should be doing

as a pro. im hoping those opposed are not to upset. its been a long drawn out debate. lets hope the split in our views can now be healed. you tried hard to defend what you believed was right. lets see it applied to other issues.

youngmen yes but then can we say that the drinking culture up here has a lot to blame. just look at last weeks court cases nearly all were related to drinking. the fact that youngmen and some not so young need to be smashed out of there heads to have fun is an issue.