Catherine Needham

@catherineneedham.bsky.social

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Professor of Public Policy and Public Management, Uni of Bham. Interested in social care, the public service workforce and crosswords, https://21stcenturypublicservant.wordpress.com/

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Policy & Politics @policy-politics.bsky.social · Jan 22

When is a law not a law?
This new blog post from @catherineneedham.bsky.social and Emily Burn looks at non-enacted policy and long-term care funding in England
policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/01/22/w...

When is a law not a law? And why does that matter to long-term care?

by Catherine Needham and Emily Burn When is a law not a law? When it gets passed into statute but never enacted. Lord Norton (a Conservative peer and expert on UK parliament) calls these cases ‘law…

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Local Government Studies @lgstudies.bsky.social · Jan 21

New for LGS@50: in 'Making a difference? Attracting new generations into local government'
@catherinemangan.bsky.social @catherineneedham.bsky.social
@drdavemckenna.bsky.social &
Jason Lowther show how public services need more transformational & relational work doi.org/10.1080/0300...

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · Nov 18

Local authorities say there were more than 1,500 children in 2023 for whom councils were paying over £500,000 a year to be placed in residential homes, with a lack of other options being the most common reason. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Exploitative' children's home firm profits to be curbed

The new measures aim to stop private care home providers benefiting excessively from a stretched system.

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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · Nov 17

Here’s my first column as economics editor, on how pay and conditions in social care fit into the wider issue of funding for this neglected sector: www.theguardian.com/society/2024...