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by Peter Beresford

The 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 consultation. This wasn't even on the menu. The government wanted the green paper to foster a big public debate. It seems only to be increasing controversy.

by Peter Beresford


The 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. How can it square the ambition of policymakers' desire to effect a transformation of social care that extends its form and funding at a time when the political will, from all parties, to reprioritising social care is lacking, partly because of financial woes?

  by Peter Beresford

Well, I guess it had to happen. Personalisation has got an unsurprising accolade. It has made it into Private Eye's Pseuds Corner, with this entry:

We believe effective commissioning is the key to the delivery of personalisation and to making a very different offer to the citizens of Lancashire.