links for 2010-11-05

• Courts reluctant to intervene over care for elderly and disabled
  Good legal summary of this worrying case (via @mrsblogs).
  (tags: socialcare cuts law disability equality)
• Summary of Coventry ULO Workshop
  Great summary – including social media stuff – from @fergusbisset of the event we (ripfa and ecdp) ran on User-Led Organisations in Coventry yesterday.
  (tags: ULOs userengagement socialcare ECDPpublicitycoverage ecdp work ripfa)
• Appeal court ruling clears way for councils to cut social care services
  A microcosm of all the issues facing social care, from funding, quality of assessment, process for assessment, decision making, user engagement, local authority mentality and so on and so forth. Let's hope this isn't a green light for wholesale removal of services…
  (tags: socialcare cuts localgovernment)
• From Publisher to Platform: 14 ways to get benefits from social media
  "This is the second of two presentations on how we work digitally at the Guardian."
  (tags: guardian media socialmedia)
• Controlling innovation in media organisations
  "This is the first of two presentations on how we work digitally at the Guardian."
  (tags: guardian socialmedia media)
• Personal budgets 'pose financial risk for councils'
  (tags: personalbudgets personalisation socialcare localgovernment communitycare)
• DLA cut rouses anger of disability movement
  No shit. Shouldn't just anger people interested in disability equality – a measure of a society is how it treats everyone, and not just those who are better off.
  (tags: disability equality DLA benefits cuts georgeosborne)
• Care Funding Commission's criteria
  Better late than never…
  (tags: funding socialcare commission dh health reform)
• Care funding commission sets out criteria for reform
  (tags: communitycare socialcare reform publicsector health)

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