Daily Archives: 10/10/2010

Labour conference: Funding of care and support is ‘at top of agenda’

10/10/2010 – 11:43 am

The funding of care and support for disabled and older people is now firmly at “the top of the political agenda”, according to Labour’s former health secretary.
Andy Burnham told a Labour conference fringe event organised by the Care and Support Alliance that he was “unshakeable” in his view that there needed to be a “National [...]

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Labour conference: Begg paints bleak picture on cuts

10/10/2010 – 11:17 am

A prominent disabled Labour MP has painted a bleak picture of the impact of the coalition government’s spending cuts on disabled people.
Anne Begg told a fringe event at the Labour conference that her constituency in Aberdeen had already been through a similar scenario when its city council was forced to make cuts of £50 million [...]

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