By Justin Keen

After 11 years talking about building a fairer social care system, Labour has a final opportunity to convert rhetoric into policy

The Labour government has repeatedly emphasised its commitment to implementing a fairer social care system. It has also trumpeted its desire to "transform" public services. Putting these two together, after 11 years we should have a reasonable idea of the government's strategy but, in practice, we don't know what it will propose. The problem is that the government has always said that it wants a fairer system, but has never said what this will mean in practice

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-care-experts-blog/2008/09/labours-final-social-care-oppo.html

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Posted 24 Sep 2008 1:19 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog | Report Abuse

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