It will provide protection to people whose care provider goes out of business and give everyone a legal entitlement to a personal care budget, which they can receive as a direct payment to spend as they wish.
"Southern Cross demonstrated that we need greater oversight of providers' finances and better plans to support people if their independent provider goes out of business.
No central authority dictates how feeds are displayed, decides whether to include ads, or shuts down a feed (unless the news provider goes under).
[C6.] Phone Provider Goes Where Others Dare Not Naguib Sawiris, chief executive of Orascom Telecom, scans the world for opportunities to expand his telecommunications empire.
In America, independent DSL providers such as Covad and Rhythms are struggling; NorthPoint, another provider, went bust in March.So why is broadband more readily available in South Korea and Canada than in other countries, even those with large numbers of Internet users?
"Is the provider going to be willing to go up on those new targets without being compelled to do so?" asked the official, who requested anonymity to discuss secret matters.
"If the provider goes bust, then cardholders will lose all of the money on their card and will not be eligible for protection," said Mark Neale, chief executive of the FSCS.
Deep Junior, an Israeli computer program, the only nonhuman in the event, was on the point of winning from the English grandmaster Michael Adams when its Internet service provider went awry.
Earlier, the Commons public accounts committee demanded that the government urgently put in place plans to ensure vital health services continued if a hospital or other provider went bust under its NHS proposals.
