Carol Miers

Useful links for May: child poverty; risk of night shelter closure; food banks struggle to cope

Here and over the next couple of days is a round-up of news items and data sources, bridging the gap of the last few months on welfare related issues. This will become a regular post. Keep your fingers on the … Continue reading

A growing gap to meet children’s service needs – interview with Cafcass

Would we complain if councils spent £0.5m to avert another ‘Baby P’? Would we say that children’s services left our roads with pot holes if funding had to be taken from other budgets, like maintenance or roads? These are the … Continue reading

Richard Vize on CCGs – notes from #reportinghealth

Carol Miers wrote up her notes on the speech by health expert Richard Vize at Help Me Investigate Health’s #reportinghealth event – we’ve reproduced them below with permission: “GPs tend to be self employed business people, they hate NHS bureaucracy and hate … Continue reading