Ring-fencing remains the difficult question for social care. At the National Children and Adult Services Conference in Harrogate the thorny issue of the £150m funding for the dementia strategy - what some people describe as the "missing £150m". Care Services minister Phil Hope assured the audience that it was there in primary care trust budgets but that it wasn't ring-fenced because "PCTs and local government didn't want ring-fencing".
Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2009/10/to-ring-fence-or-not-to-ring-f.html
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