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Today’s top SocietyGuardian stories
• Council failings putting children at risk of abuse, says Ofsted
• Cuts driving up use of food banks
• Surgeons’ death rates go online
• Half of councils at risk of financial failure within five years, say auditors
• Panic room woman challenges bedroom tax
• Colchester hospital problems may be a warning of winter crisis to come
• The Guardian view on NHS funding: integrating hospital and community care is right, but it won’t save money
• Britain Isn’t Eating: a microplay by the Guardian and the Royal Court – video
• Mary Dejevsky: Most of us just want a GP appointment and a friendly smile at reception
• Philip Ball: Gentrification is a natural evolution
All today’s SocietyGuardian stories
In today’s SocietyGuardian section
• HIV is increasing in young gay men. Will Hollyoaks help raise the alert?
• Denis Campbell: Will MPs vote to right some of the NHS wrongs?
• Kirsty Allison: The cultural revolution starts here
• Mary O’Hara: Psychologist’s exhibition shows the real face of homelessness in Los Angeles
• The jail that has reduced violence by helping inmates escape from the gang
• Jane Dudman: Public services can’t all be transformed into mini John Lewises
• Interview: Janet Carr, pioneer of Down’s syndrome research
• Stewart Dakers: By holding the present hand, I try to atone for the mistakes of the past
Jobs of the week
• Chief executive, the Retired Greyhound Trust
• Executive director, Global Witness
• Head of strategic service improvement - adult social care, Hackney council
• Head of mental health, learning disability and addictions, North Ayrshire council
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On the Society Professional Networks
• Band Aid to Children in Need: how well do you know your charity singles?
• The number of evictions has more than doubled in a year, throwing thousands of families into turmoil and temporary accommodation. Something has to change, says Hannah Fearn
• The health service needs a 10-year funding commitment, says Rob Webster, chief executive of the NHS Confederation
• Ranking civil servants is unfair, disgracefully expensive and favours those who blow their own trumpet, writes an anonymous civil servant
• Caroline Baker, director of dementia at Four Seasons Health Care, offers tips on how to care for a person with dementia
Pick of the blogs
• Ellen’s OCD blog - winner of the blogger of the year at the Mind Media Awards 2014
• Robyn Munro, Institute for Government: Charting the challenges for the next Government
• Catherine Needham, 21st Century Public Servant: ‘Generalists don’t know what they don’t know and that can be dangerous’
• Anoosh Chakelian, New Statesman: Why Ed Miliband’s bizarre mansion tax feud with Myleene Klass works in Labour’s favour
• Bob Patton and Hannah Rose, the Conversation: Are drunk young people driving up A&E visits?
• Ruth Robertson, the King’s Fund: How will we staff new models of care in the NHS?
• David Floyd, Beanbags and Bullsh!t: How bad is the bad news, how good is the good?
Other news
• Children & Young People Now: Government launches review of YOTs
• CivilSociety.co.uk: Society lotteries deregulation could lead to less trust in charities, says NCVO
• Community Care: Employment rate falls for people with severe learning disabilities or mental health needs
• Independent: Low paternity leave pay forces new fathers to take annual leave
• Inside Housing: Councils failing to prevent youth homeless, says report
• LocalGov.co.uk: Tower Hamlets mayor hits out at ‘excessive’ Government intervention
• Telegraph: Cafe tells breastfeeding mothers to use disabled toilet
• Third Sector: NCVO sceptical about more deregulation of lotteries, Karl Wilding tells MPs
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