Ex-midwife, mother, sewist, living with Long Covid for +3yrs. She/her. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally. #onesmallthing On a mission to expose good/bad accessible loos 🚽
Feb 13, 2023 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Today I witnessed @JobCentresPlus in action. It wasn’t pretty.
Firstly, my friend (I could not attend unaccompanied) & I were asked to wait. Also waiting was a man who was asking why his benefits had been sanctioned. He hadn’t got credit on his phone to ring them. 1/
The @G4S guy said “that’s not my problem”. Also “calm down” which we know works so well. Claimant lost his cool a bit. He’s getting £150/month. That’s all. And they cut it because he didn’t do what he “should”.
Meanwhile 7/8 staff were watching like it was a show. 2/
When making the appointment with me, they asked me to be there for 9am.
Not a chance. Even 10am was a push.
I arrived in a large room with 4 tables, each populated with a clinician & a patient, with the 1/
patients rotating around the room to see each MDT clinician. I was asked to sit in a chair at one end of the large room.
A few minutes later I was asked to sit in a chair in the middle of the room to enable the physio to take my BP, HR & SATS. 2/
