From Community Care online: The government must initiate the closure of Winterbourne View-style learning disability hospitals by instructing the NHS to start decommissioning them, Paul Burstow has said.
The call, which goes beyond the government’s current position, came in an interview with Community Care three weeks after Burstow lost his job as care services minister after more than two years in post.
Burstow also called on ministers to commission a thorough probe into the level of funding going into social care to ensure the sector is not short-changed in the next government spending review, expected next year. In a wide-ranging interview, he also said he would pursue his interest in social care from the backbenches, developing policy in areas including the role of social workers in community development.
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