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• Cameron gets Tories back to basics

  by Mike McNabb Just when we thought that David Cameron had broken with tradition he does us all a favour and reverts to Tory type. Read More... Posted May 21 2008, 12:04 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: Mike McNabb, families, Equality, Conservative Party, Iain Duncan Smith, David Cameron

• Anti-Gypsy violence in Italy is warning for UK

  by Mike McNabb If Nero fiddled while Rome burned, one wonders what form of inaction the old emperor would have taken in Naples in the past week. Read More... Posted May 20 2008, 12:42 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: ethnic minorities, Mike McNabb, BNP, Italy, Barking and Dagenham Council, Gypsies

• Service user empowerment – by accident

  by Mike McNabb In the name of empowerment, service users are having a greater say in how and from whom they receive care. Read More... Posted Apr 03 2008, 08:00 AM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: Mike McNabb, Alison Petch, Service users, Expert Patients' Programme, health care

• 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

• 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