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• Who's running the country, Brown or Cameron?

  by Mike McNabb If there was a sense of the familiar about chancellor Alistair Darling's Budget plan to extend an eligibility test to all incapacity benefit claimants you would have been right. Read More... Posted Mar 14 2008, 11:07 AM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: Mike McNabb, Caroline Flint, Budget, Benefits, Alan Johnson, housing, Alistair Darling

• This week's featured articles

  This week's issue contains three featured articles, covering subjects such as the budget; children's services and mental health. First up, we have a two part feature on the budget. As Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling reveal their spending plans... Posted Mar 12 2008, 04:04 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: Budget, mental health, private providers, Feature articles, Stoke Council, voluntary sector

• A Budget that's worth, erm, millions

  by Mike McNabb Alistair Darling’s first Budget speech sounded grand as he dropped his largesse on our disadvantaged communities. Read More... Posted Mar 12 2008, 02:23 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: Mike McNabb, Caroline Flint, Budget, housing, Alistair Darling, child poverty