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Top tips for keeping your home safe during Halloween
This helpful guide will give you some top tips to help make sure your Halloween stays an enjoyable one.
Halloween is a fun time of year, especially for children. But on the odd occasion events can turn sour when trick or treaters don’t play fair. Sometimes people have to make home insurance claims for malicious damage to their house.
This helpful guide will give you some top tips to help make sure your Halloween stays an enjoyable one.
How to keep your house safe during Halloween
100% personal budgets target scrapped
Care minister says councils must have 70% of service users on personal budgets by April 2013, ditching 100% ambition.
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The government has scrapped its target for councils to move all service users in the community on to personal budgets by April 2013, care minister Norman Lamb announced today.
Lamb said he had agreed a new target of having 70% of users on personal budgets by the same date, following talks with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.
Lamb said personal budgets were not suitable for everyone, but stressed that the 70% target was a staging post and should not be seen as a ceiling.
His announcement, at the National Children and Adult Services Conference, was strongly welcomed by Adass president Sarah Pickup.
She said that it would mean councils could stop “chasing a number” and focus on outcomes.
Lamb also issued a strong personal commitment to implementing the Dilnot commission’s proposals of a cap on the care costs faced by individuals.
Doctors to launch investigation into Liverpool Care Pathway
Doctors are to investigate whether the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway, which is supposed to alleviate suffering, is actually being used to deliberately hasten death.
11:27AM BST 24 Oct 2012
Palliative care doctors are preparing to open an investigation in concerns that the Liverpool Care Pathway is being used to deliberately hasten the death of elderly and terminally-ill patients.
The Association for Palliative Medicine, representing over 1,000 doctors working in hospices and specialist palliative care units throughout the country, is going to carry out research to see if the LCP is operating as a “euthanasia pathway”.
