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Today’s top SocietyGuardian stories
- Mental health of children and young people ‘at risk in digital age’
- Iain Duncan Smith questioned by MPs about welfare reforms: Politics Live blog
- 300,000 more people live in poverty than previously thought, study finds
- Eric Pickles takes over ‘rotten’ Tower Hamlets
- UK gains £20bn from European migrants, UCL economists reveal
- Brent council offers firms who pay living wage £5,000 off rates
- Risk of floods in England up due to cuts in government funding, say NAO
- Concern over back garden fireworks sparks safety fears among firefighters
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Government to include public sector pensions in welfare spending figures
- Rotherham abuse scandal: ex-police chief resigns from children’s hospital
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What does the Care Act mean for older people in prisons?
All today’s SocietyGuardian stories
In today’s SocietyGuardian section
• Work Programme adviser: ‘Almost every day one of my clients mentioned feeling suicidal’
• Clare Allan: Could my breakdown have been prevented?
• Matt Robinson: Probation contracts show the government does not value diversity
• David Brindle: Children’s social work must not be our only focus
• ‘Victorian’ sexual exploitation of poor girls isn’t history
• John Seddon: The Whitehall ideas machine must go - politicians are the cause of bad services
• The doctor stitching together medicine and art
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• Chief executive, N-Vision
• Director of health services, St Helena government
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On the Society Professional Networks
• The 10 most unaffordable places to buy a home in the UK – in pictures
• Samaritans Radar row won’t be the last of its kind, says Ben Mason, the author of a new report into attitudes towards data privacy in civil society organisations
• Bullying, stress, unrealistic targets and job cuts – civil servants explain why they are so disillusioned
• Doctors are well paid – but I still don’t get enough for what I do, argues hospital medic Nimesh Shah
• How support from colleagues can reduce the stress of social work
Pick of the blogs
• Richard Murphy, Tax Research UK: The personal tax statement George Osborne doesn’t want you to see
• Ela Hunter, New Start: The price of not paying a living wage
• Ed Cox, Manchester Policy Blogs: DevoManc is positive for all Northern cities
• Anya de longh, King’s Fund: We can’t afford to be patient about involvement any longer
• Jonathon Fagge, Nuffield Trust: Is general practice really in crisis?
• Louise Kidney, A Shiny World: Who deserves our care?
• Donna Peach, the Conversation: Adoption Week - time to celebrate progress but more can be done to care for children
Other news
• BBC: Poll shows English devolution support
• Children & Young People Now: 4Children boss ‘preferred candidate’ for next children’s commissioner
• CivilSociety.co.uk: Nacro cuts staff numbers by more than 15% for third successive year
• Community Care: Welsh government launches National Adoption Service to boost service quality
• Inside Housing: Pressure builds on St Mungo’s Broadway as donors cancel payments
• Public Finance: Extra funding needed for ‘under pressure’ GPs, says Nuffield Trust
• Third Sector: Charities should build relationships with a new generation of rich retired people, study says
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