The Big Society - Needs National Citizen Service For The Aged

The Big Society - Needs National Citizen Service For The Aged
Any political party that has been out of power for more than 13 years will naturally want to bring with it a big idea when it next fills the government benches.
 
For David Cameron and his Lib-Con marriage of inconvenience, that big idea is called the Big Society.
 
In part, I suspect, the title represents an attempt to contrast the new regime with the Big Government ways of its predecessor. It is also, of course, a response to the urgent need for cuts in spending on social services – in the hope that,... click here to read the full editorial
›› Latest social comment by Mal Fletcher - posted on Sunday 25 July 2010

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