Blog updated 4.50pm So the Twitter speculation of this morning (see below) was right and Paul Burstow has departed from his role as care services minister and from the government as a whole. In a valedictory statement, he describes his sadness in leaving his “dream job”, reflecting his long years campaigning on social care before [...]
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 of opposition tells you little about what an incoming government would do. However, I’ve just been sent a speech that Labour’s shadow [...]
The stage is set for a pitched battle tomorrow in the Scottish Parliament over plans to legalise assisted suicide in Scotland.Last week a committee of MSPs said there was no grounds for changing the law on assisted suicide. However, yesterday Margo MacDonald, who introduced the proposed law into the Scottish Parliament, said claimed nearly eight [...]
Sometimes it’s easier to see things from a distance. That’s why blogger cb at Fighting Monsters has picked up on the fact that there are very few social workers at this week’s National Children’s and Adults Service Conference without attending, while I spent 24 hours there and failed to notice this.Sure, I was rummaging in [...]
Following on from Mithran’s blog post yesterday about growing pessimism about the health White Paper, The Guardian has posted a comment piece that the paper is little more than a wholesale privatisation of the NHS.Seamus Milne warns that if the plans are taken to their logical conclusion, by 2015 the NHS will be little more [...]
The only problem with the coalition business seems to be that no-one is quite sure what’s going to happen, which in itself is exciting but is also leading to endless speculation. Mind sum up the prospects for mental health policy under the coalition government as, “We’ll have to wait and see.” I’m just as guilty [...]
The Adult Care blog looks behind the policies, practices and personalities involved in the care of older and disabled people for any hidden truths, helpful tips or humour.
It is written by Community Care’s adults’ services beat editor Mithran Samuel.
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