key events from the past year
looking back
Counsel and Care has been involved in many successful events during the past year. Included here are details of the event's content with photographs to illustrate the day.
Party conferences 2009
21/09/2009 to 08/10/2009
: Bournemouth, Brighton, Manchester
This autumn saw us exhibiting with Busy Bee's Childcare Vouchers, soon to be Computershare Voucher Services, at Labour and Conservative party conferences.
We also participated alongside Age Concern and Help the Aged and Carers UK in successful fringe events at all three party conferences on the theme of 'Making social care the big election issue'.
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Labour Party conference: Phil Hope, Minister of State for Care Services, is pictured here with Caroline Bernard and Stephen Burke from Counsel and Care and Lisa Brearley from Busy Bees. All hphotographs (c) Gus Campbell Photography |
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Caroline gave Ed Miliband our 'one idea' from VotingAge for the Labour Manifesto: 'for people receiving State Pension to also receive Carers Allowance' |
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Angela Eagle MP Minister of State for Pensions and the Ageing Society with Kate Procter, Busy Bees and Caroline Bernard and Anna Passingham from Counsel and Care |
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Yvette Cooper, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, visited Counsel and Care's stand at Labour, pictured here with Anna Passingham talking about Counsel and Care's VotingAge: an older people's manifesto |
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Stephen O'Brien Shadow Minister for Health reading about our VotingAge manifesto for older people |
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Theresa May, Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions and Spokesperson for Women spoke at Counsel and Care's fringe event on social care |
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