by Bronagh Miskelly

The DH wanted to create a debate around its Green Paper on the future of adult social care and debate it has created - just not the one it was hoping for.

At the National Children and Adult the Services Conference in Harrogate, the famed double act of care service minister Phil Hope and David Behan, director general for social care at the DH, presented an update in which Behan admitted at large proportion of the 15,000 responses to the Green Paper were about proposals concerning attendance allowance and disability living allowance.

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2009/10/attendance-allowance-debate-ru.html