Announced here:
07 December 2009, 10:00am - 11:30am
30-32 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7RA
Speakers:
Harriet Harman, MP, Minister for Women and Equality
Dr Dalia Ben-Galim, ippr
Samantha Smethers, Grandparents Plus*
Demographic changes mean that more and more people are taking on caring responsibilities. Carers are a diverse bunch who have a variety of different needs that depend on a range of factors that include the needs of the care recipient, gender, age, labour market position and family status. As four generation families are becoming more common and many more of us becoming carers, innovative policy reform is needed if we are going to meet the future demand for care... [yadda yadda, blah, waffle].
Interestingly, they don't say that Harriet will be attending via video-link from HMP Holloway, so presumably she's expecting a non-custodial sentence?
* In 2007, Grandparents Plus received half its funding from the Basic Skills Agency which appears to be part of the Department of Education (or whatever it's called this week); they appear to have received only private donations in 2008 (see Note 9 in their 2008 accounts) but are back on the Big Lottery drip again by now.
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4 comments:
Imagine if she were put away. The whole country would be gobsmacked.
It used to be the Department for Education, not of. "Of" is so last century.
Now it is the caring and sharing "Department for Children, Schools and Families". So inclusive and warm-sounding, don't you think? Especially with their lovely, fetching rainbow logo designed by a nice marketing agency.
As they say http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/brandingguidelines/, "Our brand is important because it shows instantly what kind of organisation we are, what we believe in and how we do business.
A consistent visual identity says: “We’re a united organisation, working together towards the same aims.”
Those aims were set out in the Children’s Plan, launched in December 2007. It clearly stated our purpose – to make England the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up.
The visual identity set out in these guidelines evolved from the design used for the Children’s Plan. It can be summed up as ‘building the rainbow’."
Aaah. How sweet.
Adam, true, but as the BSA (or whatever the predecessor quango was called to whatever its successor quango is now called) was first set up in 1975 and "of" wasn't replaced by "for" until 1992, I decided to for "of".
"Our brand is important because it shows instantly what kind of organisation we are, what we believe in and how we do business."
Why does this instantly make me think of a logo consisting of a hand, back towards you, with only the middle finger extended?
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