Conveniently for me, I had a care team meeting earlier this Arvo, right after noticing the damage to the lawn. Apparently I’m once again being palmed off to yet another new child protection case manager. I think the last one lasted about 5 months, and the one before that 9. I don’t get good vibes from this one, she seems quite dismissive and rude

I brought up the stuff about the lawn and the ex housemate coming back to the house, and to be honest I was pissed, and definitely less polite than I should’ve been. I almost lost it at the district manager (she’s different (1 rank below) the area/regional manager). Both her and the regional manager promised all sorts of security upgrades (a gate to block the driveway, proper locks on the side gates, proper security cameras, and a deadbolt on the front door). None of them have even been logged with the maintenance team yet. They keep dragging their feet (which is pretty much the story of why everything that’s happened, happened as it happened).

The only real good news of the recent week is that almost all of my stuff has now been replaced. I’ve ended up with a few upgrades (non working devices > working devices, and a couple of things have been discontinued and it worked out cheaper to buy a newer model, due to the old one being considered basically collectable). So that’s nice I guess.

I’m once again left feeling unsafe and wondering if he’s going to come back. I did manage to convince them to buy another security camera, which I’ll sit in the old LTs bedroom which has a view of the driveway. I’m sure people on the street will be annoyed, because it clearly records the footpath and road too, but I don’t think there’s a lot I can do about that. It has the only decent vantage spot, and there’s nowhere else I can put it which’ll only record our property