A new BIG Fund is to manage a £100 million fund that will help the charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises to weather the immediate storm of the public spending cuts.

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Social Work Practices, which have been piloted successfully in children’s services are being extended to adult care. The Practices are made up from independent social workers who are contracted to local authorities.

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Editor Michael Clarke

Choice pervades our society: it is founded on political rights to choose and our economy on market choices, but we have now reached the point where choice is extended almost everywhere.

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