But that was not the mood at Ncas.
The weather was kind to the delegates attending the National Children and Adult Services conference (Ncas) earlier in October.
His address to the National Child and Adult Services (NCAS) conference in Manchester comes after several joke outfits depicting dangerously violent mental patients in chains and wearing masks made headlines after going on sale online.
At both Ncas and then again last week at the Oval, where members of the UK Home Care Association UKHCAA) gathered, the talk was of just how fragile care markets are becoming.
Both Hunt and education secretary Nicky Morgan, whose department funds children's services, have declined invitations to attend the NCAS conference, fuelling concern that social care is once again being sidelined.
This is what sector leaders have been forecasting and why, as they gather in Bournemouth for this week's annual National Children and Adult Services (NCAS) conference, all their hopes are pinned on getting some respite from a relentless diet of cuts when the outcome of the government spending review emerges next month.
The Department of Health's Jon Rouse told Ncas delegates that there are more new providers entering the market than exiting, but how many are entering just to meet the growing demand in the self-funder market – rather than to provide local-authority funded care?
With Cloud Crash HeHe took as point of departure the air quality forecast maps produced by the (NERC funded) National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) – that show, in hauntingly beautiful detail, levels of ozone, particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide as it sweeps across the UK.
Dr Ed Hawkins, climate scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), University of Reading, said: "Not only is 2015 going to be the warmest year on record, but analysis by climate scientists shows that the vast majority of this extra heat is as a result of human activity emitting greenhouse gases".
For example, a few NCAs may merge into one thick network strand.
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