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Today’s top SocietyGuardian stories
• Autumn statement 2014: George Osborne to miss deficit targets - live coverage
• Autumn statement: six graphs you need to see
• Government could build and sell new homes on public sector land
• Bicester residents fear garden city plan will put strain on local services
• The Guardian view on council spending: local services are cut to the bone. Whitehall should let go
• Low-risk pregnant women urged to avoid hospital births
• Joanna Moorhead: Hospital births have never been safest – Nice is right to reverse this myth
• Nick Hardwick refuses to re-apply for chief inspector of prisons role
• Ann Robinson: Seven reasons why GPs have to turn patients away
• Why don’t advertisers target the over-50s?
All today’s SocietyGuardian stories
In today’s SocietyGuardian section
• Evictions rocket as welfare reforms and rising property prices hit home
• Peter Hetherington: Autumn statement - the regions need active government not devolution
• June Eric-Udorie: Protecting children and young people from sex abuse is a job for all of us
• Eric Allison: Grayling’s response to an ‘unhappy prison’ has spectacularly backfired
• Clare Allan: If psychosis is a rational response to abuse, let’s talk about it
• Tony Redmond: the NHS medic leading the fight against Ebola
Jobs of the week
• Head of campaigns, Action Aid
• Director of education and skills, West Sussex county council
• Head of operations conservation programmes, Zoological Society of London
• General election mobilisation assistants, Labour party
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On the Society Professional Networks
• Olivia Colman: Tyrannosaur made me face the true brutality of domestic violence
• I love working in mental health, writes an NHS psychologist, but I can’t do a good job on a shoestring
• No-makeup selfie: Cancer Research’s lesson on the benefits of quick thinking
• Taking Letchworth to Chengdu: can garden cities work in China?
• In a pigheaded democracy there’s no place for evidence in policy, writes David Walker
• Despite its promise, the Care Act will give little power to service users, writes Peter Beresford
Pick of the blogs
• Maria Goddard, the Conversation: Whether NHS £2bn is ‘real’ or not, it’s a drop in the ocean
• Julia Unwin, New Start: The economic benefit of poverty reduction
• Nissa Finney, Manchester Policy Blogs: Where are ethnic inequalities greatest?
• Heather Spurr, Inside Housing: Down and out
• Liza Ramrayka: Giving Tuesday - Lessons to learn
• Saba Salman, the Social Issue: Exhibition - how young people with a learning disability picture themselves
• Giles Wilkes, Institute for Government: Special advisers – the unelected lynchpin
Other news
• BBC: Fears as children use e-cigarettes
• Children & Young People Now: Ex-Ceop chief blames data sharing failure on funding freeze
• CivilSociety.co.uk: Shelter staff to vote on strike action over new pay scales
• Community Care: Ex-care minister - ‘Quarter of NHS cash boost should go to social care’
• Independent: Autumn Statement - Cameron WILL have to cut NHS spending, warns senior Tory
• Inside Housing: Council to invest £150m from pension scheme in housing
• LocalGov.co.uk: Pickles targets 275k new affordable homes by 2020
• Public Finance: NHS finances deteriorating quickly, HFMA survey finds
• Telegraph: Report suggests 600,000 face waits of 24 hours in A&E
• Third Sector: Proposed trustee disqualification power ‘needs external scrutiny’, MPs are told
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