Posts by Neil
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Hard News: We are, at last, navigating…, in reply to andin,
Just maybe more variables not adding much to the complexity and surely able enough to be coped with.
In acute health settings the pattern is of increasing numbers of complex cases within an increasingly complex multi-agency setting.
With state housing the housing is now only a prelude to further state intervention. That’s significantly different and harder than the original vision of state housing.
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Hard News: We are, at last, navigating…, in reply to ,
It’s been more a case of the mob mentality generating rational bias problems, than just people in positions of privilege and power…
More broadly our social welfare institutions are being tasked with more complex situations at the same time institutions are becoming more risk averse – for good reason, the prospect of being dragged through the courts is very real.
Originally state housing was just that – housing. Now it has to be at the centre of an evermore complex nexus of response to a wide range of social vulnerabilities. It’s not easy and solutions are hard to develop. Housing First is an example of what solutions might look like.
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I can understand why Twyford wants to make life difficult for National but at present he’s making that a priority over compensating those who have suffered an injustice.
It’s all too reminiscent of his attitude to reform of body Corp laws - he’s dragging his heels because Nikki Kaye has been the one doing all the work on that issue.
Building is Labour’s biggest challenge. Its optimistic goals rest on the assumption that the building industry is functional and honest. Standing back and looking at all the scandals that continue to surface from meth decontamination to Hawkins at Middlemore a loser look at that assumption would be wise. I’m not sure Twyford is the right person for that.
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In order to get an insurance payout for decontamination insurance companies required property owners to file a statement with the police of p use citing the tenant.
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Hard News: We are, at last, navigating…, in reply to Michael Meyers,
In my experience, public servants are trained to be risk averse above all else.
Risk assessment has often come to mean - the institution avoiding the consequences of making mistakes rather than avoiding making mistakes. The time spent proving compliance can be time not spent being compliant.
Landlords were being advised that if they did not test a property and then a future tenant did their own testing and found residue then the landlord would find it very difficult and expensive to prove that any health problems the tenant and their family had were not due to contamination.
So health and safety compliance provided no safety and only enabled con artists.
Similar is happening elsewhere.
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Hard News: We are, at last, navigating…, in reply to Clarke,
I think the answer is much more likely to be in the entrenched risk aversion of the Wellington bureaucracy rather than in any nefarious scheme.
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So the mis-application of the standard and the draconian results that followed would have been regarded as the lowest-risk option …
I think there’s a systemic problem with compliance enforcememt in the building industry – it fails to achieve its actual goals of maintaining safety and standards all the while allowing those responsible for failures to avoid responsibility and setting up hapless individuals to bare the consequences.
Stratford is sounding desperate but not desperate enough – he won’t be required to pay any compensation for the harm he’s caused – and the level of dishonesty in his argument suggests he’s aware that harm was caused. There should be compensation and really that can now only be by the government.
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The meth decontamination industry is dead - it was an expensive nightmare for landlords. I wonder if there’ll be a response from the insurance companies.
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This is just one example of scams and dysfunction making the housing situation worse. And it had nothing to do with foreigners.
The government should give serous consideration to an inquiery into the whole of the building industry.
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Access: Fighting seclusion with…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Tell you what Neil…shine a bit of light here…what the hell do you mean…’the complexity and risks….?
He is a complex case. He has seriously assaulted other people.
Most people with a psychosis aren’t complex, usually medications are effective and symptoms such as command hallucinations that can cause aggression disappears or loose their intensity.
But for a small number of people this isn’t the case and for even smaller number of people the risks remain very high and for an even smaller number of people co-existing conditions make tresatment and care extremely challenging.
Hence there’s a very very very small number of people where there are very serious dilemmas.
The public would be better served if they could hear directly from the health professionals responsible for his day the day care.
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Access: Fighting seclusion with…, in reply to Sacha,
I think the complexity and risks are much greater than you think - something Genter has apparently now come to appreciate.