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Green paper on social care funding is main challenge for 2008 says Anne...
by Anne Williams As professionals we must take our lead from Sir Derek Wanless to make a stand for adult social care and enhance its status in 2008 In 2008 much of our energy will be focused on the...
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Welfare reform green paper: threats and punishment won’t work
by Neil Bateman The welfare reform green paper (published on 21 July) contains yet more proposals for toughening up the benefits system. It seems there is no turning back when it comes to these ideas...
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Time for men to join the carer workforce
As more women enter the jobs market, the burden of care upon them can be reduced by helping more men become carers, write academics Hilary Land (far left) and Susan HimmelweitMost care is still...
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Will adult care green paper turn to gold?
By Simon HengA fair, simple, coherent and enabling adult care system is what disabled people need. But will the green paper deliver?The more I think about adult social care, the more I’m reminded of...
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The Adult Social Care Green Paper: going back or looking forward for real...
by Peter BeresfordAfter much delay the publication date of the government’s green paper on the future of adult social care was set for early July 2009. Given the difficult political and economic times...
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We mustn’t let the adult care green paper become a damp squib
by Peter BeresfordThe social care green paper’s ambitious title: Shaping The Future Of Care Together sums up the dilemma that has long faced it and which probably explains its greatly delayed arrival....
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Social care funding: Is private sector pulling the strings?
by Peter BeresfordThe political party conference season is almost upon us. Worryingly,this year it comes within the time frame of the public consultationover the future funding of social care. This is...
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‘Free personal care plan makes a mockery of the adult green paper consultation’
by Peter BeresfordThe prime minister’s party conference commitment to introduce free home care for people with the highest needs has made a further mockery of the government’s green paper...
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