Further pressure has been piled on the public sector to improve its electronic accessibility with news of a project to make computers and the Internet accessible to everyone, regardless of income.So far the technology revolution is still limited to those who can afford a PC - and Bill Gates’ dream of one found in every home is still far from being realised. 

In a move that parallels efforts to raise standards in the NHS, Health Secretary Alan Milburn is considering creating a new national social care institute of excellence.It would mean that social services, run by local councils, would be subject to the same standard-setting as faced by the NHS with its new National Institute of Clinical Excellence.
The move is an attempt to end the widely varying standards of social service provision from authority to authority.