Professor Peter Beresford

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Baroness Campbell speaking in the House of Lords, with a PA by her side

April 19, 2018 0

Disabled people split over personal health budget expansion plans

Government plans for a huge expansion of personal health budgets could help to deliver independent living for disabled people, according to a leading disabled peer. Baroness [Jane] Campbell (pictured), who has been receiving a personal health budget herself for more than a year, said the plans also had “huge potential” for “getting to grips”

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Jeremy Hunt speaking in the House of Commons

January 11, 2018 0

Ministerial reshuffle: Concern over further social care role for Hunt

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The government’s decision to rebrand the Department of Health as the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has raised concerns about its plans for addressing the social care funding crisis. This week’s ministerial reshuffle saw the number of ministers in the department rising from five to six, with Philip Dunne sacked and the

Politics

June 15, 2017 0

Anger, resignation… and optimism in wake of general election result

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Disabled activists have reacted with a mixture of anger, resignation and optimism to a general election that saw the Conservatives lose their parliamentary majority. Some believe that a resurgent Labour party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, which defied mainstream media opposition and polling predictions to increase its number of MPs by 30, will

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Long windows on the front of the Department of Health and Social Care offices in Whitehall

July 28, 2016

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Downgrading social care minister ‘is serious backward step’

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The Department of Health has been heavily criticised for downgrading the seniority of the minister in charge of adult social care. The last four ministers responsible for social care – Labour’s Phil Hope, Liberal Democrats Paul Burstow and Norman Lamb, and Tory Alistair Burt – were all ministers of state, senior ministers one level

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April 14, 2016

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MPs must accept fundamental flaws of personal budgets, says Beresford

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A leading disabled academic has urged MPs to dismiss the conclusions of the public spending watchdog and accept instead that the government’s strategy on social care personal budgets is “fundamentally flawed”. Peter Beresford, professor of citizen participation at the University of Essex and emeritus professor of social policy at Brunel University, has told the

Employment

December 18, 2015

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Discredited Maximus adds care inspections to DWP portfolio

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The care watchdog has been criticised for awarding a discredited outsourcing giant new contracts to manage the use of service-users as expert advisers in care homes and hospitals. Two-thirds of the new contracts to run Experts by Experience – which pays people with experience of using care services to take part in Care Quality

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