That will teach me to have a week off, given the two major announcements when I was away. One, almost in a blink-and-miss-it way, and the other with unmissable headlines around the potential impact on everyone as well as on businesses.

We now know both the date for the Spending Review (27 October) and some detail around health and social care funding. It's interesting to see how the mainstream media are picking up the fact that social care seems to be the poorer relation in announcements around funding, something not always willingly acknowledged – or dare I say – even noticed by some before. After the headlines drift away and more detailed analysis is sought, the voice of social care and what it covers becomes ever more important.