Hello
Welcome to "You Know.
After many years of working for a great little charity called Ling Trust I came out into the real world 18 months ago. I've found there is some great housing and care out there. People have really made great steps over the last thirty years to help people get the best lives they can.
So this site is a start. It's in memory of my lovely mum, Jean, who died just a few months ago, I know she was able to enjoy the best of care and support through her own personalised budget and having her own carers, I'm launching " You Know" and I hope it will grow into something really useful because one thing I know is having the right information and decent people to advise and help you gives the power back.What I can't say is that this is consistent and I have been more and more shocked and disillusioned by what I have seen and experienced. I'm seeing still a system of power, control, unnecessarily incarceration, lip service to any sense of personalisation and continuing abusive practices running alongside all the good practice that we know is the right way to care for our most vulnerable people. I'm constantly asked to help advocate for the person at the receiving end of poor services and very poor advice . I know many good people out there who find themselves doing exactly the same.
This site will have the UKs best in helping you get the right information at the right time. It's small now and finding its feet but I hope it will become the place where great knowledge is shared. Eventually we will have a ratings page for every agency and care home in " trip advisor" fashion too and hopefully a national advocacy service in conjunction with people like " Justice Together"
Let's hear from the people who use these places and agencies what they really think about them !
The information is free on this site. We welcome advertising but that has to be paid for. "You Know" is trading under My Great Life CIC, a small social enterprise.
So here's to a wealth of shared knowledge. Together we can stand up and beat poor care and information . This site will link you through to many others who are also working to make the care of our most vulnerable a better place. It starts with a few people, who in my view, are simply the best.