public spending

Care in care homes (this is not an easy post).

by Penbleth on Thursday 2 June, 2011

On Tuesday evening BBC showed a documentary about the abuse of adults with learning impairments in a British care home. I didn’t hear about it until my two middle kids told me on Wednesday. You may have seen the programme or heard about it, television, radio and the print media have covered this story. Frankly [...]

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Caring and care.

by Penbleth on Friday 21 January, 2011

On the news yesterday was a sobering story about a mum who posted on a website how she could no longer look after her disabled child and had therefore contacted Social Services to have the child taken in to care. I have heard a bit more about the story since then but my first thought [...]

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Budget cuts and how they threaten your services.

by Penbleth on Wednesday 9 June, 2010

Yesterday the Chancellor, George Osborne, announced we would all be facing cuts to our public services as the country faces recession and works out how to pay back, work its way out of, whatever, our huge levels of debt. I don’t think anyone is dull enough to think these things don’t have to happen, the [...]

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