The Judith Adams Centre - Chichester

David Fleming

Interfering unqualified staff, centre is old fashioned, smells, clinical, sliding doors opening on to a busy road which is worrying, also a couple of small garden areas, look very untidy and not used which is a shame, these could make great sensual areas - That was written 4 YEARS AGO! Dear centre my account isn't verified but my account is real and Google can check all they like ! That review written in 2019 was pretty accurate with constructive criticism & good intentions , why would you know me? I doubt you have been working here 5 mins if you’re the manager writing this, no manager seems to last long! you are another replacement whose time will be short here, my account of the centre is pretty accurate because I was in there many a time , You walk in from the main sliding door , To the left is the Kitchen, Right is the main day room with 2 little court yard gardens off it, And yes even since your refurb in 2020, the place is still vile!
You have the typical attitude of staff at the centre, if they didn’t like what you had to say about something they took great offence to it! my relative came here so I have first knowledge of this centre and wrenford, both centres were not fit for purpose, staff were rude and made remarks regarding certain centre goers including my relative, Personal comments which I feel should had been taken further, Reason I didn’t is because it would have made things worse for the centre user! Your staff were a disgrace, lucky for you I can’t mention names on this,
before you ask how do I know this? I knew someone who worked at wrenford at the time when both centres merged for Covid, the attitude and remarks made by certain members of staff were despicable! Also, my relative would mention to me things each time they were here which could only had been said at the centre, this is a centre where goers should feel safe and yet they weren’t! Staff were not equipped to deal with older goers and just wanted an easy life, bringing both wrenford and Judith Adams centres together over Covid was also a mistake , young able bodied adults with learning disability’s running about like bulls in a China shop when there were older frail/vulnerable goers also trying to get about being nearly knocked off their feet. when staff were spoken too regarding concerns and worry’s they got defensive and became off, they took it as a personal assault against them, a number of times my relative came out with bruises, whether it was from abuse, falling , being yanked up I don’t know but when mentioned to staff they tried to twist it around and deflect the blame from themselves, this was all documented, photos which I still have ! I feel sad that the last few years of my relatives life was spent here!, the way they were treated I wouldn’t wish that on anybody else’s family!, the fact you are trying to deflect this comment is just typical, WSCC as a whole is one big corrupt joke! you clearly don’t like criticism , some things don’t change! the centre had then as it probably does now a culture of pass the blame! , if you could deflect any blame from yourselves then you would, As the saying goes those who protest the loudest!! Oh, one more thing, because someone is older why do your staff feel it’s appropriate to play them war time songs Someone who is in their 80’s would had been out and about at dances in the 1950’s - so music from that period is what they would know, but to play a blanket of wartime music is just ridiculous

Alexander Witmondt