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Okay,
This meeting is being recorded,
so yeah. Hi, Chris. Just want to tell me a bit about what it's like, where you live.
Yes, I live in the lead service.
Um,
it's nice
when it's cooler weather.
Uh huh.
It's best to just like a small little village.
Mhm.
Mhm.
So, do you live? Do you live on your own or other older people? I live with
seven of the residents.
So six.
Yeah, and so is it,
Is it? You have your own bedroom, and
then there's
shared kitchen and
living space and
stuff. Yeah,
and
so what? What's it like? What? What do you like about where you live?
That you can just basically do
anything that you want within reason
you can spend time out in garden. Or you can
go out for that long day trips and
have time to yourself that
you need.
Mm.
So do you go off and do that stuff on your own? Or do you need some support? Just
Sometimes I will do that on their own. Or sometimes I'll have support.
Mm.
But you've got that option if you need the support. Yeah.
Yeah.
And is there anything that you don't you don't like or enjoy about where you live.
Just the behaviour of his book.
Mhm.
You get that everywhere?
Mm.
So is that some of the other people that live in the same
probably like at the moment
I can carefully here that there's two behaviours I'm going,
right?
Yeah, and that's hard. Is it to
Because you put it is Yeah,
it's quite hard to live with when it's like nearly 24 7 a day.
Um,
so I just take time out and garden and
enjoy the sun and stuff.
How does it make you feel?
And that's going on
frustrated knowing that you can't intervene to help them?
Mhm.
Well,
even though you can't intervene, it's probably for the best thing.
So you're not Put yourself in danger.
Mm,
yeah,
yeah,
and
that's interesting, actually, what you say there about not
not being able to intervene or probably not been a good idea. But
actually,
do you think there are things that you could do
that might support or help other people who were there?
If it was me, I would try and, like,
talk to them before
escalates.
Mhm,
right? There's there's one last.
That's basically was saying that she wants to send laptop is me.
So
it's difficult, because when somebody has something, she will want the same.
Mm.
Yeah.
And and that's that. Yeah. That is hard, isn't it?
Because that's like, that's like, we all have those
kinds of things that we yeah, that we need to deal with.
Um, so do you feel that it's, uh,
where you live in the support you get is helpful for you.
Yeah, it's helped me out. Massive list since I've moved here.
Um,
I'm sure that Jackson is aware of.
Well, I've been through.
And
what?
From what I've been through two now
he had cuts, has massively helped me.
What do you think it is that's made the biggest difference for you.
Just like better support. Um,
that trust is that of where I can trust them, and they can trust me.
Um,
and
black the ground rose. And
don't be able to tell me straight
which I prefer
Mhm.
So clear, clear rules being people being honest and up from with you.
And do you have Do you have some say in what those
rules are or how how things work for you where you live.
I do every now and again.
Um
So, like my owner, Scott leave is
currently just been up to seven times a week now.
Um So I had to say in that,
because if I didn't feel comfortable, I would say Just leave a four times a week,
But with me being comfortable with it,
I said just to operate to seven.
So that's that's a phrase I've not heard before. Unescorted leave.
What does that mean?
So basically, when you're on a adults,
you're not able to go out by yourself.
You've always got to be with staff.
Now, honestly, I leave is basically
being able to go out on your own on the Scarlet.
So not being able to have that staff member there.
So you've got some time to yourself
now,
I think,
and all services, they should try it.
Mhm,
obviously, with
people outside, less
vulnerable and stuff are, uh,
I think it really should be tried to see of how they would do.
But it's also like
pushing them boundaries for me as well,
to prove to them that I can be more independent out in the community.
What's your What's your dream, Chris? What?
My dream for me is to become a support worker and
to be living in the community
independently.
Yeah.
So moving out and having your own place?
Yeah. Support work, I think.
Also did I Did I notice somewhere as well
that you were interested in doing the training?
Yeah.
What difference has that made
to you being involved in the training?
Um, it's made
quite a big difference, Really?
Right.
Being able to meet like new people meet like the new trainers and stuff like that.
Getting involved with it.
Uh huh.
Been able to gain some qualifications from it as well.
And
all this is just basically proving to myself and others
that I can't
do things without having to have stuff there.
Did you think? Was there a point where you thought that might not be possible?
A couple of years ago? Yeah.
Mhm.
I thought that I would never be
having, um, honest got leave or
anything like that
that I won't be able to go to college or be
able to do any form of training or anything like that.
But now all that has changed.
Mhm.
Mm.
Now It's really good to hear. Is there anything else you would like to
and say before I stop?
No, thank you,
I'm sure.
Yes.
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