Jim Dunton
Jim Dunton is a reporter on Local Government Chronicle.
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Councils should expect 'enormous' cost variations on Dilnot proposals
Councils should expect enormous variations in the costs of implementing the Dilnot Commission’s proposals for funding adult social care, MPs were told today.
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Dilnot social care proposals are 'regressive', says Lansley
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has told a meeting of councillors that he believes the Dilnot Commission’s proposals on care funding reform are “regressive”, HSJ understands.
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Council chiefs rebel over public health funding sign-off
Council chief executives are understood to have staged a backlash over the Department of Health’s bid to get them to “sign off” local public-health spending figures.
- Lansley announces 75 HealthWatch 'pathfinders'
- NHS lags behind in social enterprise drive
- Dilnot commission confirms cap on care contributions
- NHS changes could spell new comms burdens
- Public health funding argument 'is over'
- Government public health response held until July
- Duty to co-operate on social care proposed for NHS and councils
