Off diary: Johnson rules out an end to means testing - The Guardian 24th October 2007

Health secretary Alan Johnson's speech to last week's National Children and Adult Services Conference was certainly brief, but a leading social care figure's "content-free" verdict was a tad unfair. Owing to an apparent failure of Whitehall departments to get their ducks in a row, the planned unveiling of protocols on joint working was withdrawn from the speech at the last minute, leaving the minister nothing to announce. But he did put down an important marker about the promised green paper on reform of adult care funding.

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