CONDUCTIVE WORLD: WHY M&W LOST CONTRACT

Formal statement from Stockholm County Council

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Councillor Stig Nyman states ?

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Procurement of intensive training

for children and young people

with disabilities?

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Yesterday afternoon I was interviewed by TV4 Stockholm and by ABC, on the new procurement of intensive training for children with cerebral palsy and other diagnoses. I also met a group of patients and families who were concerned about the contract and wanted to express their views to me. According to media reports, the Move and Walk is to appeal and it is important that the process be carried out.

These are the reasons why we have chosen to make this statement:

• My goal is to improve care for these patients, and we are also making several major initiatives

• We are increasing the scope of care efforts so that more children may receive care.

• The patients who had been excluded from treatment, due to the limited size of [M&W's] business, will now have a better opportunity to be intensively trained through an expanded service.

• No reduction is being made, but the alliance will increase its investment by 700,000.

• No child needs to interrupt the treatment. This will now be offered by Rehab Station Stockholm. from April next year.

• Care is provided according to the National Board's national guidelines

• Rehab Station Stockholm is a renowned player with which the County Council has had long and successful collaboration.

• Rehab Station Stockholm had significantly better scores in the contract when it comes to offering good and safe care

• This focus on the education of children, parents and personal assistants is an exciting development that will benefit both patients and their families.

http://stockholmslandsting.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/upphandlingen-av-intensivtraning-for.html

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Private conductive CE company Move & Walk has been contracted by Stockholm County Council to provide a habilitation service for children with cerebral palsy. The arrangement is now coming to its programmed end and the Council has announced that the next three-year contract will go to a non-conductive company offering a 'traditional' service.

As soon as this news came out Lars Mullback and a small group of parents were already protesting publicly over this, in a press release of 17 October ?

Stockholm County Council is to withdraw this special education for 300 cerebral palsied children. Instead it is to procure intensive physiotherapy.

Update

Yesterday saw a small demonstration outside Stockholm's County Hall:

And Lars, along with conductive mother Ola Berge, published an opinion piece in the national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet:

...now the politicians have chosen to procure intense training instead of Conductive Education, a special education concepts just for cerebral palsy. Move & Walk (M & W) has lost the contract to Rehab Station Stockholm (RSS).

When we called RSS and asked for training for cerebral palsy, they said they are not working with Cerebral Palsy and not with children either. Three different managers testified, however, that they will learn more about children and CP now that they got the contract, and that it will be "as good as for adults."


Formal appeal against this decision has to be submitted by 26 October

References

? (2012) Barn med hj?rnskador mister ov?rderlig hj?lp, Svenska Dagbladet, 24 October
http://www.svd.se/opinion/brannpunkt/barn-med-hjarnskador-mister-ovarderlig-hjalp_7610590.svd

Mullback, L. (2012) F?r?ldrar protesterar ? Katastrof f?r v?ra bar, Press release
http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/view/pressrelease/foeraeldrar-protesterar-katastrof-foer-vaara-barn-804420

Nyman, S. (2012) Upphandlingen av intensivtr?ning f?r barn och ungdomar med r?relsehinder
http://stockholmslandsting.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/upphandlingen-av-intensivtraning-for.html

Earlier stories on Conductive World

http://www.conductive-world.info/2012/10/stockholmas-paradigm-example-yesterday.html
http://www.conductive-world.info/2012/10/stockholm-political-process.html

Source: http://www.conductive-world.info/2012/10/why-m-lost-contract.html

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