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Emily Thornberry unveiled as Labour shadow care services minister
Islington South MP Emily Thornberry has been named as Labour’s shadow care services minister as new leader Ed Miliband put the finishing touches to his health team.The team – shadow health secretary...
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Heard the one about the social care cuts: it’s all in how you tell it
Blog updated 6 March 2012It’s pretty clear to all who take an interest that spending on adult social care is being cut in England. But quantifying that cut appears to be a rather complex business. The...
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Burstow urges social care staff to sign up to dignity code
Sorry to be late on this but health and social care staff are being urged to sign up to a “dignity code” governing the treatment of older people by none other than care services minister Paul Burstow...
View ArticleCorrection! There is no error in this video from Liz Kendall!
Blog updated: 1 May (11.07) I owe Liz Kendall a big apology for saying rather smugly that there was a mistake in this video from her. Bang goes my credibility on analysing social care funding! Kendall...
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What would Labour do with social care?
I’ve been pretty neglectful of what Her Majesty’s Opposition has been saying about adult social care, mainly because we are three years from a general election and, to state the obvious, the rhetoric...
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‘Attendance allowance must be reformed…but not means-tested’
A few years ago the future of attendance allowance – the benefit paid to disabled adults aged over 65 – was up for grabs, after Labour mooted fully integrating it into the social care system. The...
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