| Personal Care at Home Bill ---
12 Feb 2010
I have been reading with some amusement over the past couple of days the U-turn that some Labour Councils, including Durham have been making over the letter that torpedoed Gordon Browns flagship pre-election policy on the personal care at home agenda.
Labour are obviously finding themselves in the thick of it. I can imagine that the phonecall that allegedly came from NO 10 was very much a Malcolm Tucker moment!
However, that is where the amusement ends at Labours u-turing tizz because care for our ageing elderly population is a very serious and problematic issue.
If I had my Nurses hat on, I would welcome the personal care agenda that would give people a choice of how and where they are cared for, because at the moment choice is limited and in some cases poor quality.
If I had my Councillors hat on, I am raising concerns for the affordability of the scheme as the books have to balance and the chances are they we will be inheriting this scheme next May from the current Labour incumbents.
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