Some Cornish news

  Health and social care is an industry within the Duchy of Cornwall is often overlooked. Though the largest industries in Cornwall, such as agriculture and fishing, are also overlooked in favour of the bloated tourism industry, health and social care is one of the largest employers. This important industry is of course expected to grow when taking into account the ageing population of the UK, which consequentially leads to the ever increasing price of this care.   With this in mind, Cornwall council and the NHS Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly have worked together to build a new sustainability plan for care within the Duchy. This plan aims to solve a number of solutions in regards to development and updating of home-based care. A number of these item are fairly logical and simple in explanation, including “working with” experts and different organisations to both predict the needs and support care services both public and private. In addition to this, funding paid directly to care ser

  Not so long ago, Cornwall council received the responses to their consultation on the Devolution deal with a Mayor for Cornwall position. This deal, let us remind ourselves, spoke for more power for Cornwall, with more decisions being made here. However, it was quickly shot down as a waste on money that was more about despotism and centralisation. This deal would have provided a minuscule amount of funding, funding with limits on where it could be spent. This funding could also not be used to fill in the gaping deficit the unitary authority of Cornwall has found itself.   With over 5,000 responses, the Duchy of Cornwall declared “no”. This waste of money was not for us. And initially, this was overlooked. Linda Taylor, echoing politicians who decided that democracy was not important, declared that a silent majority agreed with her and the plan for a Mayor for Cornwall. This however was, and rightly so, shot down by a number of groups. By the end of this week, Cornwall council and Wes