The Guardian

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Labour needs a better argument if it is to win this battle Back in the days when they couldn’t win an election to save their lives, despairing Tories would comfort themselves with the idea that the facts of life were still Conservative. Sure, New Labour was in power. Privatisation will be the right’s answer to our ageing population.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 18, 2024

Robert Howard writes that it is bureaucracy and a lack of political will that prevents a return to ‘the good old days’. I hope any upcoming Labour manifesto does not repeat this mistake. The concept of civil society should not be reduced to charities providing public services that the state ought to provide to its entitled citizens.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Tory right wants no tax rises and no spending, while Labour wants the highest tax burden to be paid by those who have the most. This is an epic case of political and policy mismanagement. Come hell or high water, the national insurance rise will happen, rudely snubbing a campaign by the Daily Mail.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The interesting question from a [ ] treatment providers point of view is where can you intervene with that? [ ] I would start by going back to the Sure Start initiative that Labour government funded around the millennium, which was basically taking people at high risk at the stage they're starting to parent so their kids get the best start in life.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

.” Being a director ‘is a tough gig’ As one of a declining breed of “twin-hatted” directors, Smith has a lot on his plate, managing budgetary, service, workforce and political pressures across children’s and adults’ services. “One of my priorities [as president] is ensuring we support DCSs.”

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JULY 2, 2022

The Charter is initially submitted as an invitation and call to action to the world’s leaders at the United Nations High-Level Political Forum and General Assembly. They have not yet served the people they represent. Employment and work: From being undervalued to being recognised with dignified working conditions.

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Social Work Synergy

JANUARY 25, 2021

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9 AM CRISP Policy and Politics Forum “Social Work and the Future of Democracy” No cost, but Registration required. Head Social Policy Unit, Social Protection, International Labour Organization (ILO). Panelists: Dr. Charles E. Lewis, CRISP Hon. 37th Annual Social Work Day at the UN Description.

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Reimagining Social Work

DECEMBER 7, 2021

My book about the political history of child protection in Aotearoa is due for publication in late January 2022. This text explores the relationship between child welfare policy, liberal capitalism, and the politics of settler colonialism over time. ori was necessary for the effective imposition of liberal political economy.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Labour MP Dr Rosena Allin-Khan probed mental health minister Maria Caulfield on the issue in the House of Commons last week. ‘The human cost of delay’ “This report lays bare the real human cost of political inaction and delay,” said Mind’s associate director of policy and campaigns, Vicki Nash.

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Clinical Philosophy

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Consider the following 8 perspectives: Perhaps in a social utopia, one in which everyone feels valued by society as a whole, in which everyone has the opportunity to take up deeply meaningful labour which utterly satisfies them, in which everyone has the opportunity to make deep socially cohesive ties, there is no or very little depression.

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The Guardian

APRIL 26, 2024

Stephen Timms says DWP letting unpaid carers incur ‘enormous accidental overpayments’ Ministers have been told to “immediately” fix the issues causing tens of thousands of unpaid carers to incur “enormous accidental overpayments” amid growing anger over the carer’s allowance scandal.

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The Guardian

APRIL 25, 2024

Angela van den Bogerd says she forgot about email in 2010 saying cash balances in post office operators’ accounts could be remotely accessed Humza Yousaf, the SNP leader and Scottish first minister, is holding a press conference now. He says he has been in the post for little more than a year.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Dismay as key proposals are downsized in order to make election offer to voters ‘bombproof’ Labour is preparing to omit plans for large-scale reform of social care from its next election manifesto, scale back its plans for House of Lords reform during a first term in office, and recalibrate the way it presents its £28bn-a-year green prosperity plan (..)

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Plans to reform social care and House of Lords are trimmed as Keir Starmer’s party opts for caution ahead of vote Labour is planning only limited first-term reforms of social care and the House of Lords and a smaller green investment plan as part of a stripped-down general election manifesto, as it seeks to make its policies “bombproof” to Tory attacks. (..)

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Community Care

JUNE 7, 2022

But, Ofsted warned, “despite recent changes, political, corporate and operational leaders do not know their services and the impact for children well enough”, an observation borne out in them not being “fully aware” of the systemic delays uncovered during the visit. “That’s a big worry for me.”

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The Guardian

MARCH 19, 2024

Damning report on long-term care system blames uneven funding and a lack of a plan for failure The government has brought adult social care in England “to its knees” with years of uneven funding and a “woefully insufficient plan” to fill thousands of staff vacancies, MPs have said in a damning report on a system that provides long-term care for 835,000 (..)

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The Guardian

APRIL 18, 2024

Gordon Brown, the then-Labour chancellor who introduced Sure Start in 1998, helped retrieve my eyeballs from the bit of my skull I’d rolled them into, with his analysis: “These results tell us in detail what most parents already know. If only we’d known!

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The Guardian

JANUARY 14, 2024

Our political culture is too Westminster-focused to follow the stories and join the dots; the dreaded term “local government” still causes eyes to glaze over. But all over the country, the picture is now the same, and things are rapidly nearing the point of complete breakdown.

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

In a despairing rebuke to both major parties, Sir Andrew Dilnot, whose government-backed commission proposed a cap on social care costs more than a decade ago, said that there was “no serious addressing” of the state of the care system by Labour or the Conservatives heading into an election campaign. Continue reading.

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The Critical Blog

APRIL 15, 2021

Those embracing macho ‘ anti-woke ’ and ‘politically incorrect’ descriptors as laudable (even a ‘badge of honour’), seem unable (or unwilling) to view introspection, self-reflection or self-awareness as supreme personal qualities. Siobhan and I’s ‘labours of love’ for OUTLANDERS is an eternal gift to the Social Work profession.

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The Guardian

JUNE 27, 2023

Former health secretary says he is ‘profoundly sorry’ for every death and says he knows an apology from him will be ‘hard to take’ The journalist Isabel Oakeshott thinks Matt Hanock is giving a “typically assured” performance.

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Exclusive: Firms call on future PM to introduce £15-per-hour minimum wage for frontline workers Care home bosses are demanding the next government funds a 44% pay rise for frontline staff to stabilise the crisis-hit sector and boost a system that is “in an extremely precarious state”.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Chancellor denies postponing financial pain as fiscal watchdog’s figures show eight years of income growth wiped out In the Commons Rishi Sunak is making a statement about the G20 summit. These statements are normally routine, and just summarise what was said or decided at the meeting. They don’t normally include fresh announcements.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Alasdair Macdonald on education policies that Labour could introduce at virtually no cost, and Alison Walton and Nick Frost on the Ofsted regime’s harmful impact on children’s social services Polly Toynbee rightly highlights not only the impact of Ofsted’s “reign of fear” but also the many other negative legacies of Michael Gove and Nick Gibb ( The (..)

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This live blog has now closed, you can read more on this story here This is from Bloomberg’s Alex Wickham, who has been engaging in the time-honoured lobby practice of U-turn counting. Alok Sharma , the Cop26 president, said he was “delighted” Rishi Sunak will now be attending the Cop27 summit in Egypt.

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The Guardian

APRIL 20, 2023

Faced with criticism over attack ads on Rishi Sunak , the newly bullish Labour leader has doubled down, insisting he will continue “no matter how squeamish it might make some feel”. The attack ads levelled at Sunak are grim, but he is not the only – or most worrying – target of Labour’s blows.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Details of the “cooperation agreement” were unveiled by the Welsh first minister, Mark Drakeford, and the leader of Plaid, Adam Price, on the steps of the Welsh parliament building, the Senedd, on Monday.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Underfunded, overstretched sector to become testing ground for battle against low pay but critics say policy is weak and vague “My sister is a care worker. She was a care worker during the pandemic. Fourteen-hour shifts, often overnight. Unimaginable pressure. And the reward? A struggle every week – and I mean every week – just to make ends meet.”

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The Guardian

JANUARY 15, 2022

Party aims to weaken Johnson’s attempts to take credit for handling of the pandemic with its 10-point strategy Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Labour will today announce ambitious plans to create a country that can “live well with Covid” without the need for future harsh restrictions, as it seeks to prevent Boris Johnson (..)

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The Guardian

MARCH 4, 2022

Anas Sarwar believes totally integrating social and health care is essential to NHS reform Anas Sarwar , the Scottish Labour leader, has pledged to spend nearly £1bn to provide free residential care for all elderly people and free home care in a bid to address Labour’s slump in support.

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The Guardian

JUNE 7, 2023

A report by the Fabian Society thinktank, commissioned by the shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, and the trade union Unison, sets out a roadmap for a national care service (NCS) that they hope would address the existing patchy, impersonal and inadequate state provision.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Labour polling reveals funding changes that break Conservative election pledge considered a betrayal Conservative voters in the north of England view Boris Johnson’s changes to social care funding as toxic and say his broken pledge on not selling homes to pay for care is a betrayal, according to research seen by the Guardian.

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The Guardian

JUNE 8, 2023

Labour’s shadow health secretary Wes Streeting and the trade union Unison commissioned the report to lay out a roadmap to a new National Care Service. This is the right time for Labour to explore radical policies, planning how to implement them, as centre-left thinktanks did in the run-up to 1997.

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The Guardian

JULY 3, 2022

Exclusive: shadow health secretary says service in England would be brought in over several parliaments Labour will aim to bring in a national care service in England with just as much ambition as the 1945 government that brought in the NHS, the shadow health secretary has said, launching a review of how it would work.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 21, 2022

The NHS is in crisis, and ministers are taking the opportunity to extend private healthcare’s reach NHS waiting lists are out of control. million people are queueing for hospital treatment in the UK, around 6 million of them in England, where this is the highest number since records began in 2007.

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The Guardian

JUNE 8, 2023

Conservative neglect of the system has been a disaster. Wes Streeting and his colleagues must show they can do better Two proposals in the course of a week present opposing approaches to England’s care crisis.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Michael Hill , John Harvey and Tim Johnson on the reforms needed to create a social care system that doesn’t fail people when they’re most vulnerable Once again, Polly Toynbee deploys her deep knowledge of the deficiencies of social services to good effect ( People are dying waiting for social care.

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