Wednesday, July 13, 2011

A good day to bury news?

Sign up for daily e-mail Company Briefing

Please give us your feedback daily about the company

Thank you to everyone who 's answer to my request for daily feedback on the company. Please keep your thoughts to come, the invitation remains open for the rest of the week.

I 'd like to know how the company every day (as an e-mail or on the website?), What kind of device that you read on Access (desk top computer, tablet, telephone ...) and if They tend to read it. Is the timing good for you - sooner or maybe a round-up day, or at the end of the day? Is there too much into every day 's bulletin - or you want to see more? Do you think that some sectors (or bloggers and tweeters) seem too much, while others aren 't featured often enough? Want to see the daily take one format to another - as a live blog, for example, or to a particular theme each day?

Please send me clare_horton clare.horton @ guardian.co.uk (mark e-mails daily feedback Society), direct tweets of @ or add comments on the website.

A good day to bury news?

0David Cameron will put his vision for this afternoon Reform of public services . The delayed public services open Whitepaper public services to private providers, on a train, the Prime Minister expected to be available as "the power of the people" revolution. But as the phone hacking scandal dominates the news agenda, what interesting timing for the white paper. The Guardian 's Julian Glover writes today

"Not much in the newspaper's new: the point, say its authors, to draw together existing plans of the coalition's \ support fragmented for more varied and responsive public services emphasize competition is designed to push up standards and reduce costs, the. coalition seems in his faith steadfast in such things - but tense, also watch for a backlash from professionals, things as they are want to, lonely minister tone: to .. the white paper explaining why they think that they are right.
Either way, today 's start doesn' t have a hope in hell to win attention by phone hacking. Maybe that doesn 't matter is. What matters is that the coalition is still in a position just to have a common set of values ??and the lower divisions over what to public services, such as the political reasons for the change can be obtained consent to be done. It 'sa fear of radicalism cocky after one year, that the empire strikes back - perhaps even that the whole project is brought, be reduced by aftershocks from the Murdoch crisis. But, like gyros copy teaches, there is nothing as dynamic as a stabilizer in a fluctuating time. Look forward to talk about the future, and keep on trucking. That 's what happens in this White Paper. "

But as the prime minister prepared to unveil the white paper, news broke this morning that the Southern Cross care homes group is to close.

When Christine Burns pointed out on Twitter:

"Southern Cross goes belly-up on the day that David Cameron wants us to believe private sector companies should be important public services, run"

Meanwhile, Julian Dobson says on Twitter:

"The public services white paper \ a vicar's egg. Some places are innovations, many are in confusion. Cuts still be the big story."

My colleague Alison Benjamin was a request on Twitter this morning:

"Those who work, or with a relative in a # SouthernCross home let me know what \ the impact of the company 's death on you with \."

Andrew Sparrow will be following the prime minister's speech on the Politics live blog

Today's top SocietyGuardian stories

• NHS waiting time may increase the cost of life, warn doctors

• Over 1,000 firefighter jobs cut, says union

"extraordinary inability to monitor its own contracts properly" - claiming it would be too expensive.


Meanwhile, the Where's the Benefit blog reports the case of a Dumfries woman whose contributions towards her care home costs have risen by 6,870%. According to the Dumfries and Galloway Standard, Linda Murray faces a rise from the present weekly charge of ?21 to ?1,464.

"... I am increasingly angry about the circulation of ideas in politics. Find Everywhere I turn, there is a new think tank, published a new brochure, a new policy. Red Toryism, local patriotism, conservatives cooperatives, the great society - it 's too much in fact, it ". Sat burden horseshit It 's fiddling while Rome burns ..
It 's not big ideas that are the problem. Great ideas are crucial. Capitalism, democracy, freedom, equality before the law, the nation state - these are great ideas. And they are squeezed from the top of the politicians 'minds by the large number of small ideas. "

• A new report from the Children 's Society, the children at the age of eight, says Running away from home or care - and in most cases not reported to the authorities. The report, Safe Make Runaways, warns that many are in great danger and risk of injury, physical abuse or sexual exploitation. The average age of runaways are used, be increased by 13 and 14, but the charity - the largest single investment provider of specialized services for young runaways - says it is still working with "Pre-Teen" outliers, helping more boys than ever before. The Children 's Society found that more than 100,000 children away from home or care in the UK run every year - or one every five minutes.

• A new competition launched today by the Media Trust and ITV News, which aims to find the broadcast journalists of the future. The Breaking Into News 2011 competition, fronted by News at Ten presenters Mark Austin and Julie Etchingham, offers 18 to 25-year-olds the chance to be mentored by experienced broadcast journalists in writing, presenting and production skills. Six finalists will be given the opportunity to develop their ideas and turn them into a news report. Entrants are being asked to submit a short description about themselves and their backgrounds, explain what they'd like their report to focus on and why they deserve the opportunity to break into news.

• Charities make the most of their Facebook friends

SocietyGuardian's Facebook page

SocietyGuardian.co.uk editor: Clare Horton


guardian.co.uk ? Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms and Conditions | More Feeds


0 comments:

Blog Archive