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Today’s top SocietyGuardian stories
• Most claimants who lose benefits fail to find work
• Jobcentre ‘hit squads’ set up benefit claimants to fail, says former official
• Benefits sanctions overused to reduce claimant numbers, critics claim
• Councils get emergency £25m for social care to tackle hospital blockages
• Labour blames coalition cuts for huge increase in A&E patient numbers
• Health minister calls for party unity on NHS
• NHS treatment of whistleblowers is inexcusable, say MPs
• Barnet council ‘engaged in social cleansing’ at West Hendon estate
• Lesbian, gay and bisexual seniors face twin fears of old age and homophobia
• Jake Mills: Zero suicides is an admirable aim but it requires all-out change
• Suicide and gender: why are men more likely than women to take their own lives?
All today’s SocietyGuardian stories
In today’s SocietyGuardian section
• The estate we’re in: how working class people became the ‘problem’
• How 3D printing and land reform could help to solve the housing crisis
• David Brindle: Pharmacists could hold the key to solving A&E crisis
• Frances Ryan: Quiet cuts undermine support for disabled people in the workplace
• Care home staff need good training, not hidden cameras
• Tom Levitt: Circle was not the problem at Hinchingbrooke hospital
• Patrick Butler: Why the ‘big society’ is now just a hashtag for coalition hypocrisy
• Sir Rodney Brooke: ‘How can local government cope with more cuts?’
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• Head of Capital Ambition, London Councils
• Head of policy and performance, Sheffield city region combined authority
• Programme director – waste transformation programme, Essex county council
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On the Society Professional Networks
• Our economic system enriches the most powerful at the expense of the 99%, writes Winnie Byanyima, executive director at Oxfam International and co-chair of the World Economic Forum 2015
• A social worker shares their experiences of upcoming redundancies following four years of cuts: “We are losing the future as well as the present”
• Private landlords are trying to make renting seem like a lifestyle option. The truth is that most renters are locked out of home ownership, and could be for decades, argues Hannah Fearn
• A nurse blogs on working in A&E: it is a privilege, even if it is stressful and understaffed
• As Macmillan Cancer Support is named CharityIndex brand of 2014, YouGov explains what people look for in charity brands
Pick of the blogs
• Kay Atwal, Touchstone blog: 100 claimants with mental health problems have their benefits stopped every day
• Damon Gibbons, New Start: Where next for local welfare schemes?
• Anne Lazenbatt and John Devaney, the Conversation: Domestic violence is now out in the open but the figures show just how endemic it is
• Andrew Sharratt: What if … Uber provided social care
• Saba Salman, Social Issue: Exhibition reveals hidden history of learning disability
Other news
• BBC: Care cuts ‘leave old high and dry’
• Children & Young People Now: NYA launches £1m youth employability fund
• Community Care: Care workers strike over 9.5% pay cut
• Independent: Labour mayor of Bishop Auckland defects to Ukip claiming ‘the party I once knew is no more’
• Inside Housing: Council faces High Court challenge over homelessness policy
• LocalGov.co.uk: Cardiff to cut senior management by a third
• Public Finance: Betts welcomes lifting of barriers to creation of more ‘super councils’
• Telegraph: Years of delay in death certificate reforms after Harold Shipman tragedy is ‘criminal’
• Third Sector: Three charities offer their support to the most pressured A&E departments
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