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Six of five rounds

Compete in this year's Christmas quiz and you could win an ipod nano. Email your answers to clare.jerrom@rbi.co.uk by 5pm on 2 January 2007 and the lucky winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers shortly afterwards. The winner will be announced on the website.

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Round 1: News

1) Who sat as Judge in the Zahid Mubarek case, which ended in July?

a) Lord Justice Keith

b) Lord Justice Robertson

c) Lady Butler-Sloss

2) What did Derek Wanless's King's Fund report call for?

a) Export social care to Denmark

b) More money for older people's care

c) Children's services overhaul

3) What did a social care inspection report released in the summer discover in Cornwall?

a) Good surfing opportunities for children in care

b) Widespread abuse of people with learning difficulties

c) Excellent restaurants

4) The 21st century review released February threatened a major shake-up of what?

a) UK science fiction writing

b) Welsh social care

c) Scottish social care workforce

5) When was the first national fostering allowances announced?

a) October

b) March

c) August

6) What does Conservative leader David Cameron want to do to hoodies?

a) Hug them

b) Hang them

c) Runaway from them

Round 2: Photos



1) Who has this fine barnet of hair

a) David Cameron

b) Lord Victor Adebowale

c) Denise Platt

2) These eyes belong to?

a) Community Care Big Question regular Kierra Box, a young person's advocate

b) Louis Appleby, the mental health tsar

c) Anne Owers, chief inspector of prisons

3) This nose bridges the face belonging to

a)  Cyrano de Bergerac

b) Sheila Scott, head of the National Care Homes Association

c) David Miliband, MP



4) This fine head shines out for?

a) Harry Fletcher, probation supremo

b)  Gary Vaux, Community Care columnist and welfare rights adviser

c) Anti-poverty campaigner Bob Holman

5) This chin holds up the face of?

a) Head of the GSCC Lynne Berry

b) Ivan Lewis, care services minister

c) Rod Morgan, YJB chief

 

6) If you spoke into this ear, who would be listening?

a) Health secretary Patricia Hodge

b)  David Behan, social care director at the Department of Health

c) Andy McCullough of the charity Railway Children

Round 3: Quotes

1) Who said: "Some people call me Mrs Enforcement, I don't mind that."

a) Respect tsar Louise Casey

b) Health minister Patricia Hewitt

c) Dominatrix-like dog trainer Victoria Stilwell from TV's "It's me or the dog"
 

2) Tony Blair said in 2006: "There are countries doing this a lot better than us and we have to be honest about that." What was he talking about?

a) The war in Iraq

b) Investigating bribery and corruption

c) Caring for looked-after children

 

3) Who said "My dream would be to see a hundred thousand elderly people and their carers outside 10 Downing Street not allowing anybody entrance or exit until they've had a conversation with the prime minister."_

a) Lib dem leader Menzies Campbell

b) TV actor Tony Robinson

c) Ian Philp, older people's tsar
 
4) Who said the "social care sector needed to stop making excuses" for failing service users?

a) CSCI chair Denise Platt

b) CSCI chief executive David Behan

c) Care services minister Ivan Lewis
 
5) Who likened himself to Dennis the Menace's dog Gnasher?

a) Home secretary John Reid

b) Children's commissioner Al Aynsley Green

c) Former president of the ADSS Tony Hunter
 
6) Who said "I would have my work cut out trying to turn around social care's poor media image?

a) Director of BASW Ian Johnston

b) Max Clifford, media publicist

c) Editor of the Sun Rebekah Wade

Round 4: People

1) Who was Ivan Lewis's predecessor as care services minister?

a) Liam Byrne

b) Margaret Hodge

c) David Davis
 
2) Who replaced David Behan as chief inspector?

a) Janet Snell

b) Paul Snell

c) Andrew Cozens
 
3) Who became chair of BASW less than a month after resigning from Wiltshire Council?

a) Ray Jones

b) Ian Johnston

c) Anne Owers
 
4) Where did former head of Noms Martin Narey go?

a) NCH

b) Barnardo's

c) South America
 
5) Who is the current president of the ADSS?

a) Anne Williams

b) John Coughlan

c) Lynne Berry
 
6 Who is the shadow minister for health?

a) David Blunkett

b) Oliver Letwin

c) Andrew Lansley
 
 
Round 5: Legislation in 2006

1) What was the name of the health and social care white paper?

a) Caring for Life

b) Our health, our care, our say

c)  New lives, new directions
 
2) Who has sponsored the assisted dying private member's bill?

a) Lord Joffe

b) Lord Jaffa

c) The law lords
 
3) Care Matters is currently out for consultation. What's it for?

a) Improving care of looked-after children

b) Improving care of older people

c) Reforming the print industry
 
4) Gordon Brown's pre-budget report in December called for efficiency savings of a minimum of?

a) 3 per cent

b) 2 per cent

c) 5 per cent
 
5) What is the name of the bill that will propose the replacement of the Child Support Agency?

a) Child Support Bill

b) Family Support Bill

c) Divorced Parents Bill
 
 
6) This year saw another Mental Health Bill. How many have New Labour published?
  
a) One

 b) Four

 c) Three