by Chris Rogers | 4 Mar 2014 | General Election 2015, Politics
The Labour Party’s independent commission on whole person care, led by Sir John Oldham, former clinical lead at the Department of Health, has set out a wide ranging list of recommendations to encourage joined up care across health and social care, in order to...
by Chris Rogers | 4 Mar 2014 | Children and Families
The Family and Childcare Trust has published a report that says a family with two children will spend over £7,500 each year on childcare, compared to just over £7,200 on their homes, provoking the headline that “the cost of childcare is now more than mortgage...
by Chris Rogers | 18 Feb 2014 | Outsourcing, Politics, Welfare
Labour MP Sheila Gilmore, a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, has written a blog for the Huffington Post website criticising the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the two suppliers of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments –...
by Chris Rogers | 17 Feb 2014 | General Election 2015, Politics
Nick Clegg has hinted at a possible deal with Labour in the event of another hung Parliament. In an interview for a BBC Radio 4 documentary to be broadcast tonight, the Deputy Prime Minister said Labour had shifted their position and praised them for accepting the...
by Chris Rogers | 10 Feb 2014 | Economy, Education & Children's Services, Politics, Welfare
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has this morning used an article in The Guardian to preview his lecture tonight on Labour Party plans for public service reform, which will see public service users ‘put at the heart of services’. Miliband will set out four...
