Disclaimer: North Yorkshire County Council: Disregards Police PPN is not an attack on individual social workers or institutions. It is highlighting critical failings in social care in the public interest. I do not want other vulnerable adults to ensure what I have suffered.

Trigger Warning: This post makes reference to suicide and safeguarding failures that some readers may find distressing. If you need support, please call NHS 111 (option 2) or freephone Samaritans: 116 123.

Summary

My previous blog post highlighted how North Yorkshire County Council, (NYCC) stopped my statutory support in 2023 without warning or reason and went against GP and psychiatry advice. It also documented how they ignored a safeguarding concern raised by the Care Quality Commission in February 2025.

This post highlights how two months after failing to action a safeguarding concern by the Care Quality Commission, North Yorkshire County Council then disregarded a Public Protection Notice, a PPN issued by North Yorkshire police in April 2025—just two months after surviving a suicide attempt. The PPN was served on NYCC to safeguard me and provide me with support.

What Happened?

Two months after surviving a suicide attempt and two months after North Yorkshire County Council ignored a safeguarding concern raised by the CQC, an incident occurred at my home.

Two neighbours fly-tipped my garden. They left mounds of garden waste, road signs and bracken in my garden. They also ripped off my entry gate and threw it onto a mound of bracken.When I confronted them about it, the husband of the couple was aggressive and abusive towards me. He verbally abused me, and I felt extremely threatened and frightened.

I complained to my landlord, Yorkshire Housing, who did not reply to my complaint. I complained to the fly-tipping unit at North Yorkshire Council, who said it was the ‘landlord’s responsibility’ to deal with it and deflected back to them.

Following this, I contacted the adult social care team at North Yorkshire Council. I explained how threatened I felt by my neighbours. I am pleased with them reconsidering the safeguarding request by the CQC. They refused. They told me once again, ‘You know how to complain.’ I explained that my landlord, Yorkshire Housing, had not replied to my complaint, but they still refused to help.

My neighbours then retaliated and put in a false complaint to Yorkshire Housing about me ‘leaving out rubbish’, which was untrue. This led to Yorkshire Housing sending me a threatening email, titled ‘ASB Breach’. The content of the email said I was under investigation for an anti-social behaviour violation regarding leaving out rubbish.

Then I felt really threatened. I didn’t just have my neighbours harassing me. I had my landlord making allegations about me based on lies. For the second time, I pleaded with North Yorkshire County Council. I asked them to put in place safeguarding, but they said, ‘No, sort it out yourself.’

Public Protection Notice, (PPN)

I called the police because I felt unsafe and under threat. On 5th April 2025, a lovely police officer from North Yorkshire Police visited me at home. The local constabulary knew about my recent suicide attempt, as they had carried out a forced welfare check on my property in February 2025. The police officer took a video recording of my bins, which were immaculate.

She asked me why TEWV was giving me no support, but I told her they had discharged me from their care. I told her that North Yorkshire County Council had continually withdrawn my support and kept closing my file in spite of safeguarding concerns being raised about me.

On 5th April 2025, the police served a Public Protection Notice a PPN on NYCC to give me support and safeguarding. A Public Protection Notice is a record of a safeguarding concern to inform a multi-agency response.

I heard nothing from North Yorkshire Council. Just like the CQC safeguarding concern they ignored from February 2025, they disregarded the PPN it and took no action.

Conclusion

This is the third safeguarding concern raised about me that North Yorkshire County Council has ignored and failed to take action on. These breaches violate the Care Act, 2014, and possibly the The Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act, 2014 and they are putting me at significant risk.

This is unacceptable conduct. Local authorities must be held to account for these actions.

I am calling on North Yorkshire County Council to publicly account for these failures, and I am calling on the Care Quality Commission and the Local Government Ombudsman to investigate these serious breaches in duty of care. Vulnerable adults must be protected.

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