Speeches and events

Keynote speech by Ivan Lewis MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care Services

I want to put the debate about Individual Budgets and direct payments in the context of the bigger picture about where we are going with social care...

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Keynote speech by Anne McGuire MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary (Disabled People)

Individual budgets and the modernisation of social care is the way forward and it links into a bigger and wider agenda for disabled people...

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Keynote speech by Martin Routledge, National Programme Manager, Self Directed Support

I would like to say something first about the nature of the task that the 13 pilot sites have taken on. I think there is a great deal of excitement in the air...

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Direct Payments National Conference, Manchester, May 2007

Keynote speech by Minister for Care Services Ivan Lewis MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care Services

We have made it clear that a redirection of power and control from providers of services to those who use services and their families is going to be an integral element of a 21st century social care system. We made this clear in the pre-budget report last autumn and it was repeated in the budget only a matter of weeks ago...

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National Children's and Adult Social Services Conference, Brighton, October 2006

Speech by David Behan, Director General for Social Care, Department of Health

Over the past 14 years, I have addressed this conference in four very different roles: as a member of the Association, as President, as Chief Inspector, and now as the Director General for Social Care...

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Commission for Social Care Inspection National Conference, June 2006

Speech by Ivan Lewis MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Care Services

I am delighted to be here speaking to you at an exciting time. A time of change. A time of opportunity. A time of radical change when we are changing the culture of how public services are delivered across government, creating modern, responsive services. So that services are not simply done to people, but operate for and with them...

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