Client confidentiality is often quoted as a reason for ducking responsibility. At the same time, client confidentiality rarely matters when prejudice takes over within the same kind of contexts. Deplorable.
Today, The Guardian has the story of Rosy, a former University of Portsmouth librarian with motor neurone disease.
At the same time, Dutch national news agency NOS reports on the rise of homelessness in the Netherlands. Most homeless people in the Netherlands stay out of view of the system.
It doesn’t take a genius to understand why so many unhoused people in the Netherlands want to stay out of the claws of the system or why they go unnoticed or, rather, aren’t able to receive any kind of useful, practical support anyway.
The Dutch system only exists to keep itself alive these days. It doesn’t serve the country’s citizens. Most or far too many civil servants are busy carrying out civil servant tasks that have no real meaning outside of that system. Other than that, it seems to operate purely on the basis of prejudice. That is so unbelievably off-putting and unhelpful. It forces people to focus on battling that instead of on getting back on their feet.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2553539-aantal-daklozen-stijgt-voor-tweede-jaar-op-rij-tot-33-000
NOS should be ashamed of itself for using the stereotype as illustration. This is one of the reasons why homeless people in the Netherlands want to avoid the system. Because getting ostracized isn’t helpful in any way. It makes things far worse than they need to be.
