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  • Gordon Brown on social care

    Gordon Brown has weighed into the social care debate - that must be good news, I can't remember the last time a PM talked about social care. He's launched a six month debate on the future funding of the care system - but haven't we already had Wanless? Don't we already know what the options...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by simeon2 on 05-12-2008

  • Gordon Brown and the 10p tax rate

    Just a very quick thought about Gordon Brown and the 10p tax "affair".
    Posted to Mad World (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-24-2008

  • 10p tax rate row: Where is Brown’s commitment to anti-poverty now?

    by Keith Sellick Has the furore over the abolition of the 10p tax rate dealt a death blow to New Labour’s talk of social justice and eradicating poverty? Earlier this week, Lib Dem Vincent Cable, wrote: “There was a certain unhappy symbolism yesterday, in a Labour government conjuring up billions to...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-23-2008

  • Cannabis: Expert advice versus politics

    Press reports today suggest that the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs will recommend to ministers that cannabis should remain a Class C drug . Ironically this comes just two days after Gordon Brown strongly indicated in his monthly press conference that he backed reclassifying it into the more...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-03-2008

  • Budget

    What do people make of the today's Budget ? The big debate among campaigners is on child poverty, where the government committed around £1bn of the £3.4bn deemed necessary to hit its target of halving child poverty by 2010. The core child poverty campaign groups have strongly welcomed this, saying...
    Posted to General chat (Forum) by Mithran on 03-12-2008
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