Archive for April, 2010

By Paul Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk One of the most memorable posters of the Second World War warned that ‘loose talk costs lives’. Sixty five years later a poster featuring Gordon Brown could well carry the words: ‘Loose talk loses elections’. One silly comment from the Prime Minister could well seal his – and Labour’s – fate [...]

By Paul Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk It was one of those conversations you couldn’t help overhearing. The train was full and I was surrounded by a group of very talkative senior council officers who had much to gripe about. Firstly, they were not happy about not being able to travel in style: For them first class rail [...]

By Paul Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk The General Election is just over a week old and already May 6 seems like an eternity away. Hands up all those who are sick and tired of the election campaign and the daily dose of: ·         Smug politicians failing to answer direct questions ·         Smiling (former) MPs making promises they [...]

By Paul Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk So near…and yet so far. In announcing plans to create a National Care Service – the greatest welfare reform since the launch of the National Health Service 62 years ago – the Government lost their nerve on the crucial issue of funding. There was no ‘cometh the hour, cometh the man’ [...]

by Jennifer Roberts This article appears in the Journal of Care Services Management, of which Jennifer is joint editor. Can the Government’s new blueprint for a National Care Service end one of the great injustices in England today: the postcode lottery of social care? The ‘vision for the future’ outlined in Shaping the Future of [...]