Home care is labour intensive, the number of recipients is large and keeps on growing, and there are substantial costs beyond staff salaries (notably, the amount of time wasted traveling between reci… (View Post)

Adult social care still eats up a larger proportion of council budgets than children's services, but demand for the latter has grown more rapidly in recent years: County council leaders have called f… (View Post)

There are various models which will give slightly different combinations of survivors, but I imagine that there'll be a lot of overlap between the groups. We'll probably all take exception to some of… (View Post)

The Conservatives fundamentally exist for only two purposes: to ensure the transmission of wealth upwards, and to make sure that the already rich can preserve their estates and transmit them to their… (View Post)

The entire private schools policy is symbolic. It will have a marginal effect (it'll upset some people a great deal, just not very many) and the money raised will be a drop in the ocean. It's all par… (View Post)