I was reflecting earlier how under the 97-10 government, there was a far broader context for social care policy: Valuing People, Life Chances of Disabled People/Independent Living, National Dementia Strategy, Social Exclusion Unit work on older people, human rights...

...and crucially, Labour's global focus on public service reform, which permitted ideas generated by the independent living movement on choice & control to find further currency under the rubric of 'personalisation' culminating in Putting People First