Saturday, December 31, 2011

Obvious really.

Concern being expressed at the fact that charges for providing care in the home to the elderly vary considerably between local authorities, with some providing such care free, and others charging up to around £20 an hour for it.  But this is just another example of the fact that there are two sides to every coin - all the major political parties are to a greater or lesser extent committed to reducing centralised control, and to more decisions being made at a local level, but if you're going down that line, you have to accept that different local authorities may well see things differently and have different priorities.  So there will inevitably be what has been termed a "post code lottery".  You can't have the penny and the bun, as my Gran was fond of saying.

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