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• Autumn budget last chance to fix social care funding, Boris Johnson warned

  06-03-2021 18:00
  
  Sir Andrew Dilnot says solution cannot wait after opportunity missed in budgetA comprehensive plan to fix the social care crisis in England faces years of further delays unless Boris Johnson backs sweeping reforms this autumn, the government has been warned.There was a backlash last week against Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, after his budget failed to mention social care. The prime minister has pledged to fix the broken system in which many people are burdened with astronomical bills to cover the
  
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• Royal Mint Museum hopes to reach care home residents in decimalisation reminiscence session

  06-03-2021 15:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  In February 2021 it was the 50th anniversary of decimalisation, when Britain changed to a decimal currency system.  Handling pre-decimal coinage can be a positive and nostalgic experience for people who lived through the changeover, so as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations the Royal Mint Museum have developed a decimalisation reminiscence session.The reminiscence session takes the form of a Museum in a Box, which contains originals and replicas of objects from the time for residents
  
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