Care Support Independence

A weekly update showing media coverage of the Green Paper and wider care and support issues. Click on the link to read the article or news item.

Comment on the Green Paper

In The Guardian, Lord Lipsey suggests that private sector schemes can play an indispensable part in funding a new care and support system. (06 May)

Competing surveys on social care from The Sun and Community Care

The Sun has again drawn attention to the Social Work Taskforce and asked readers for their experiences and views of social care. (08 May)

Community Care has set up its own survey of social workers in response to a poll run by The Sun. (07 May)
General

An on-line Community Care article has details of the LGA/ADASS report on personal budgets. (11 May)

Novelist Gaynor Arnold writes a feature in the T2 supplement of The Times on her experiences as a social worker. (08 May)

The Sunday Mirror reports the case of Gwendoline Hoar, a 91-year-old woman who died in a care home two years ago. (10 May)