PMLD – a view from the frontline

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With community-cased facilities for people with learning disabilities stepping up the government's personalisation agenda, how are these changed being received at an average council-run...

Older people fail to bond with individual budgets

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Individual budgets successfully give people more choice, flexibility and control over their personal care, according to an evaluation report launched by the newly appointed...

Early years professional – a teacher by any other name?

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Rarely has government policy polarised expert opinion within the early years’ sector quite in the manner achieved by the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)....

EYFS launch celebrated

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With vociferous opposition having plagued the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) throughout the run up to its implementation on September 1, a casual observer...

A Fair Care Price For All

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Robert Potter looks at the latest residential care pricing tool and analysis from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation?and Laing & Buisson head William LaingDefining appropriate...

Workplace wellness – the great divide

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The contentious topic of the worth of workplace wellness prompted a polarity of opinions amongst panel members and lively debate at large, during Laing...

Only one in five would chose formal elderly care

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A study published by a ‘positive aging consultancy’ has revealed that almost two thirds of people over the age of 40 want to live...

Boys will be boys: Reigniting the gender debate

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Over the past two decades reception class teachers nationwide have been expressing grave concerns over the on-going decline in young children’s attention, concentration, social...

Poverty stricken. A pledge too far for Labour?

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When former Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged in 1999 to halve child poverty in the UK by 2010 and eradicate it completely by 2020,...

The DH gets down to dementia

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Obligatory dementia registration, dedicated specialists in every home, joined up advisors. The DH reveals its vision for the National Dementia StrategyUnless they have a specific...
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