links for 2010-07-21

lolz.

@paul_clarke This should give you an idea of NAO's views of benefits of coterminous arrangements: http://is.gd/dAWuk (NAO search results)

Why you should follow strangers (and the brilliant @jonahlehrer) on Twitter: http://goo.gl/2UEp A must read! – Tim Harford (TimHarford) http://twitter.com/TimHarford/statuses/19085332085

Deaf people are included among thos considered "incapable" of sitting as jurors in the Irish justice system. Nice.

Fascinating link from Marbury on Louis Oosthuizen's red spot on his glove. Great stuff.

New on my blog: Abbott's radio silence http://goo.gl/fb/CiA5K

@dominiccampbell Shared this w @cllrdaisybenson earlier - health already 10s of yrs behind social care in things like PBs http://is.gd/dAFVY

RT @dominiccampbell: RT @Pellegrino5: Do disabled people fare better in the open labour market? http://fb.me/BXN4RnYp

Crikey! A compendium of (non-blogger) responses to the #healthwhitepaper (via @patrickjbutler)

@CllrDaisyBenson Nooo! Only need to look here: http://is.gd/dAByx - to see it's not a good idea. Pooled budgets wld set social care back yrs

New on my blog: Early learning from Personal Health Budgets http://goo.gl/fb/9K8Ye

RT @robertbrook: @rich_w see also http://lg11.com/bookmarklist/?mastertag=bigsociety << #bigsociety

RT @edcox_ippr: RT @OliBarrett: A run through several posts which have got me thinking about #BigSociety http://bit.ly/d8eqI5 – AndySawford (AndySawford) http://twitter.com/AndySawford/statuses/19059830392

Old Demos publication: "Argues that the laws and financial mechanisms which govern the world of charity are antiquated, cumbersome and inflexible, and makes the case for an historic new settlement to encourage voluntary action. It analyses the place of ethics in modern society and sets out a wide range of imaginative recommendations for remaking charity for the next century. Geoff Mulgan is Director of the Performance and Innovation Unit. Charles Landry is Director of Comedia"

"Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, White House Domestic Policy Advisor Melody Barnes and others speak at a White House event marking the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. July 14, 2010."

"The commission established today to reform care funding will have to act quickly in setting out how its direction of travel, health secretary Andrew Lansley has made clear. It will have to report back to government within two months on the criteria it intends to use to judge competing proposals for reform[.]. The government has already said that the commission will feed into the Treasury's comprehensive spending review, which will set out public spending plans for 2011-15 and will be published three months from today. The commission must produce its final report 12 months from now."

Just discovered http://packrati.us, which should do the trick re: marking faves in Twitter and collecting them in delicious.

Ignore the Death Tax bit, and this article is a very useful overview of the position with regard to funding of social care in England.

"Up to half of all staff will go at DCMS."

"Ministers have unveiled the membership of the commission tasked with producing a formula for reform of long-term adult care funding, but have made clear that a compulsory insurance system would be off limits." I'm not so sure the compulsory system is off limits. Knowing there are a range of flexible ways to meet the costs, plus the financial environment in general, means I think it gives coalition enough wriggle room to admit it as a possibility.