Flipping 'eck Tucker. This will take the top of your head off.

As the new govt makes strategic & investment decisions it’s essential to base these on what delivers real, radical change. Internships Work has doubled the number of young people in supported internships, sees people in work and employers actively engaged. That’s real change 👇

UK homecare market now estimated to be worth £12.4bn and projected to grow 15% over next 10 yrs 'due to demography and local authority commissioners’ preferences for non-residential care' #socialcare

Just received an email to say our current ADHD waiting time locally is 11 years.

Fascinating footnote to #socialcare history here from the estimable Alan Walker

‘Blood is bought and sold in ignorance of safety, purity and potency’ - the great Richard Titmuss, warning of the dangers of a private market in blood, in 1970

He’s paid £3,060.26 an hour. Approximately £51 a minute or 85p a second.

As The Times and The Sunday Times seemingly morphs into the Mail I wonder how ⁦Steven Swinford⁩ ⁦Chris Smyth⁩ & Oliver Wright feel about this presentation of their balanced news analysis?

Recommend this report, a model of accountability. Includes the arresting stat: 'Over the six years, across TV, radio, newspapers and other channels there have been over 7.7 billion ‘opportunities to see’ news items relating to my work'

Disability charity Livability goes back to the name it had from 1944 to 2007

Love this! Not just .. 'the inspiration behind creation of a #socialcare reform campaign in Scotland at the age of 99' but also .. 'Ellena was admitted to a nursing home in 2015, but left in 2018'

Recalling that as chancellor Jeremy Hunt pledged that next spending review would 'prioritise proposals that deliver annual savings within 5 years equivalent to the total cost of the investment required' Will Labour similarly require HM Treasury to 'do things differently'?

I’ve met many Valdo Calocanes. This is how a mental health crisis can lead to tragedy | Jeremy Walker | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Coventry City 's attendance for the Oxford game (28,051) was the biggest for an opening home league game since 1978 when 28,585 watched the Sky Blues' 0-0 with Nottingham Forest

Would benefit 2.5m people for an upfront cost of no more than £32m. Sounds like good value.

Can we please see an end to manufactured outrage about the NHS’s lack of preparedness for new dementia drugs, only 2% of people getting a “proper” diagnosis, etc? When treatments that make a worthwhile difference in dementia come along, we’ll move heaven and earth to be ready.

Very sad to learn of the untimely death of my past research colleague Jules Forder. A fine scholar and all-round nice guy. pssru.ac.uk/blog/obituary-…

Has #socialcare used the centrality of human relationships in care settings as 'a convenient excuse not to modernise'? Interesting challenge from Prof. Martin Green Care England 💚

Strong report on the rise of modern slavery in London from Hestia - concerning as a resident to see that Barnet Council had more cases last year than any other borough except Westminster City Council Sarah Sackman KC MP hestia.org/Handlers/Downl…

We need you - this survey closes on 9th September📢 We want to hear from people who are autistic or have a learning disability living in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. We want to find out what people want and need to have a good life. surveymonkey.com/r/B3RHWGR