Marinoto North Youth Team

Terrible, never bring your child here

A child in Marinoto care for many years up until a couple of months ago.There were some case workers who were very genuine, didnt always get it right but did their best. Our grateful thanks to them, they know who they are.However:1. Accountability was mostly missing, or too limited. For the most part, the child or young person was too fragile to stay or support a complaint procedure, even with help.2. Skills deficit among some staff, not remedied or addressed.3. A lack of effective self critique or team critique of its members. Prioritising inter team relations at the expense of patient care.4.Excess fondness for explaining failures as due to the child or family, and not to own or team practice.5. Tendency for Psychiatrists to dominate team decisions, even when their own insight into the patient's health was particularly poor.6. Psychiatrists allowing Northern Health School (NHS) to instruct/persuade them to withhold medical certificates for entrance to NHS, even though all conditions for the certificate were met. So excluding those patients from suitable education.7. This happened twice. The last time excluding the patient for a school term.8. Finally the long term neglect of adequate assessment and diagnoses, and therefore treatment and disability assistence. Particularly in the area of autism and ASD.

Difficult to see the value of this organisation when they are completely MUTE!Total lack of understanding and direct communication with families. We needed someone to listen and they failed - when we needed support for our daughter they failed. When we needed action they had a team meeting and failed to get back to us with any response or plan.We are currently obtaining support from a number of alternative organisations.

I gave 1 star. It should be zero stars! After taking my granddaughter I am raising to Marinoto since yr 9, (now 18 yrs and left school), I was told on Friday, Marionoto can't do anything. as she has left school, so not under the Youth Section. No help for anything. Still getting distracted and forgetful. She had 4 tests last week for the course she is currently doing. She said to me, I kept getting distracted. This caused her anixety to surface. I am now going privately. I completed an online referral on Saturday for her. Not cheap! Marinoto you cause families stress!