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Today’s top SocietyGuardian stories
• Alcohol harm costs NHS £2.8bn a year
• UK unemployment rate falls to 6.0%
• Prison staff shortages approaching tipping point, says top governor
• Hidden pockets of child poverty within affluent areas, new report shows
• UK only G7 country with wider inequality than at turn of century
• Smoking in London’s parks ahould be banned, health advisers tell Boris Johnson
• Greater Manchester police ‘failed to pursue child abuse gang claims’
• Labour sets out plan to reach 200,000 homes-a-year target
• George Monbiot: The age of loneliness is killing us
• Live discussion, Thursday from noon: What should the next government do for older people?
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In today’s SocietyGuardian section
• Disabled people get a helping hand into local politics
• Anne Longfield: Children’s centres need champions – they are a lifeline for many families
• Phillip Inman: Public sector workers can’t eat their pensions
• Mary O’Hara: Mental health must also go to the top of the research agenda
• Stewart Dakers: How deceit has become our default setting
• Parents’ long wait for truth on baby’s death may be over
• Hannah Fearn: The abolition of council chief executives was Eric Pickles’s worst idea ever
• David Oliver: Old people are not a burden
Jobs of the week
• Secretary general, Department of Children and Youth Affairs, Ireland
• Director of programmes and partnerships - international, British Red Cross
• Head of 0-25 years early help and preventative services, Kent county council
• Patient and family support director, St Wilfrid’s Hospice
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On the Society Professional Networks
• Why civil servants are going on strike
• How an actor with Down’s syndrome is changing perceptions
• Tesco should not be responsible for tackling the UK’s diabetes crisis, says health policy blogger James Shrimpling
• Has the face of fundraising changed for good?
• Property developers’ fair embodies all that’s wrong with public housing policy, writes housing worker and campaigner Glyn Robbins
Pick of the blogs
• Paul Jenkins, ybrummo: Encouraging the Good Life
• Charlotte Walker, purplepersuasion: what is World Mental Health Day for, anyway?
• Marc Kidson, Insitute for Government: Why the civil service policy profession needs to keep talking about the progress it’s making
• Andy McKeon, Nuffield Trust: Party conference commitments on NHS spending: the unanswered questions
• Owen Tudor, Touchstone: What do politicians need to do about immigration?
• Saba Salman, the Social Issue: UK charity recycles computers to Africa
• Mark Ferguson, the New Statesman: Forget conference halls, politics should be more like the pub
Other news
• BBC: Dying patients ‘lack home support’
• Children & Young People Now: Call to let Birmingham young people help shape services
• CivilSociety.co.uk: Over 600 St Mungo’s Broadway staff to take part in week-long strike
• Community Care: Leaving care services are “not working for the most vulnerable” warns Action for Children
• Inside Housing: High Court hands out damning judgement to ‘negligent’ council
• LocalGov.co.uk: Report predicts six scenarios for local government in 2020
• Public Finance: IDS confirms Universal Credit rollout plan
• Telegraph: How the Tories plan to woo elderly voters
• Third Sector: Electoral Commission lobbying act guidance says charities must record staff use of social media
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