The Conservatives intend to implement an £8,000 income scheme to fund residential care, but how exactly will a voluntary scheme be fairly implemented?
Those answers may not exactly inspire confidence among voluntary sector providers that the government is actively managing the situation.
The report also called for new tenants in social housing to be denied a lifetime tenancy but put on "path to ownership" – exactly what is being proposed in the voluntary deal knocked up between housing associations and the government last week.
In a system that tends to make the law comply with corporations rather than the other way around, "voluntary protection" seems to do exactly what the phrase implies: to make workers' rights optional.
Using them was voluntary; the game could be played exactly as before without them.
A voluntary quarantine is just that, voluntary.
Until we know how to conceptualize the capacity for voluntary choice, it is hard to know exactly how to distinguish it from decision-making capacity, and therefore hard to understand its role in informed consent as a whole.
At a hastily called meeting of the paper's staff, publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., made it clear that Abramson's departure was not voluntary, though he gave few details about why exactly she was fired.
