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Blair McPherson
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08 Sep 2020 - 06:03

null Vanity Projects 

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... See more
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Blair McPherson
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26 Mar 2017 - 21:07

null Local Authority awkward squad

  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... See more
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Blair McPherson
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14 Apr 2016 - 11:25

null The poor need an accountant more than a social worker

  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... See more
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Blair McPherson
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12 Jul 2014 - 15:39

null Public Health is safe with LA's. Is it ?

  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... See more
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Blair McPherson
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12 Jul 2014 - 12:54

null Weekend food parcels for school children

  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... See more
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