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PM signals 'end of state monopoly' in public services

The Prime Minister has vowed to end the "state monopoly" of public services and put control back in the hands of professionals and the public. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, David Cameron says the system needs a "complete change"...

Published 21 Feb 2011 9:20 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: David Cameron, public services

Review: BBC 'When a Mother's Love is Not Enough'

David Cameron praises his "brilliant" social worker while taking part in a moving and frank BBC documentary about the realities of caring for disabled children When both the PM and the leader of the opposition have parented a disabled child...

Published 11 Nov 2009 6:09 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: disability, BBC, children and young people, television programme, David Cameron, disabled children, Parenting, Down's syndrome, rosa monckton, aspergers syndrome, camilla pemberton

Laming report "leaked" to the News of the World

By Maria Ahmed, Deputy News Editor Lord Laming's review of child protection ordered after Baby P appears to have been leaked to the News of the World ahead of its official publication on Thursday. Whether or not the content reported by the paper is...

Published 9 Mar 2009 12:34 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: child protection, Gordon Brown, ed balls, David Cameron, victoria climbie, children in care, The Sun, Baby P, Haringey, the news of the world, lord laming

Child poverty legislation may not make abolition more likely

By Mithran Samuel Prime minister Gordon Brown today promised to legislate to end child poverty by 2020 , a move which has been warmly welcomed by children's charities. But what will this mean in practice? Read More...

Published 23 Sep 2008 6:50 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Mithran Samuel, child poverty, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Labour, Tory, George Osborne, fuel poverty

Behold the conquering social reformer

By Bronagh Miskelly David Cameron has plans to change your jobs and your lives. In the publicity for a new biography of Conservative party leader we learn that he plans to be "as radical a social reformer as Mrs Thatcher was an economic reformer"...

Published 18 Aug 2008 6:14 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Politics, social workers, David Cameron, Bronagh Miskelly, Conservative Pary, social reform

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...

Published 21 May 2008 12:04 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Mike McNabb, families, Equality, Conservative Party, Iain Duncan Smith, David Cameron

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