A project that is not justified by cost and effort and whose purpose
is to make the instigator look good. The most famous was the USA race
with the Soviet Union to put a man on the Moon the cost of which could
not be justified but was intended to demonstrate capitalism was better
than communism and the USA was the greatest.
Putting a man on the moon was an extortionately...
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26 Mawrth 2017 - 21:07
Health and social care is high on the government's agenda but is the resent advice note from the DoH another example of trying to narrow the remit of local authorities and their awkward squad, social workers?
The Department of Health and Association of Directors of Adult Social services has issued an advice note which recognises the...
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I remember a lecturer on the social work course who was fond of saying " The rich and powerful have their own accountant but its the poor and those on benefits who most need them ". Her point was the rich employed an accountant to reduce the tax they pay even though they could afford to pay it. The benefits system is as complicated as the tax system but the poor have to rely on free...
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So everything is ok now that Public Health comes under Local Authorities and Directors of Public Health now work in local government . Or so you might think reading the director of public health in Haringey as she writes in the HSJ.
We don’t talk about it anymore but there was a time but there was a time when local authorities were ambitious for their populations and felt their...
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Another school fund raising event nothing particularly unusual in that we have all got use to the idea that parents are expected to do their bit to help hard up schools. Except these parents and pupils walking round the athletics field have given up their Saturday morning to raise money for weekend food parcels. The school started offering pupils food parcels when they realised that...
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