Irate over Dunmuir Park issue

Thursday, June 15, 2006 - Galloway News (Visit Web Site)

Sir — I am writing with dismay after listening to the broadcast on Radio Scotland regarding Dunmuir Park Hostel. Councillor Dempster made Dunmuir Park sound like a Victorian work house.

My daughter frequently uses Dunmuir Park for respite and she also couldn’t believe what she was hearing. To suggest that service users have to eat at set times without any choice and told to go to bed at a set time is utter rubbish! Comments like this reflect badly on the staff, something which they certainly don’t deserve as they all do their best and more to meet everyone’s needs and requirements.

If Councillor Dempster, along with his colleagues had taken the time to visit Dunmuir Park before this programme was broadcast perhaps they just might have got their facts right. If Dunmuir Park was the type of place Councillor Dempster is making it out to be then WHY would parents and carers be allowing their young people to stay there. WHY would we all be fighting to keep Dunmuir Park open. WHY would our young people also be wanting to continue living there.

So Councillor Dempster and your colleagues please take the time and visit Dunmuir Park before you say or make any more wrong decisions.

Mrs Margaret Dodds