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Today’s top SocietyGuardian stories
• Revealed: hitlist of welfare cuts facing next chancellor
• Anne Perkins: Cutting benefits is popular politics – but marks the death of solidarity
• UK living standards fell for all but the richest under coalition – analysis
• Letters: The Tories’ £12bn of further benefit cuts will add to growing poverty
• WHO report: 74% of men and 64% of women in UK to be overweight by 2030
• Ban NHS doctors from private work, hospital consultant says
• Ed Balls would ‘save’ NHS with cash injection in quickfire first budget
• Number of MPs who earn from renting out property rises by a third
• Police saw Rotherham child sex abuse victims as prostitutes, says PCC
• Charlotte Samantha: How not to talk to people with an eating disorder
All today’s SocietyGuardian stories
In today’s SocietyGuardian section
• Could Norfolk’s ‘rainbow’ alliance be the future of multi-party politics?
• What has the coalition’s bold mission done to public services?
• Catarina Tully: What effect will the parties’ policies have on poverty? Think before you vote
• Clare Allan: Only less austerity will improve our mental health
• Bonfire of Whitehall departments expected if Tories win election
• Cutting employment support for learning disabled people is a false economy
• Alan Berube: ‘We are moving poverty to the suburbs’
On the Society Professional Networks
• A GP’s plea to the next health secretary: don’t restructure the NHS again
• Labour, don’t back out of Greater Manchester’s NHS devolution plan, urges consultant RoJo
• Renters are left out in the cold in the run up to the general election, writes Hannah Fearn
• Targets take priority over time with service users, social work survey finds
• Charities left out of political agenda - survey
Pick of the blogs
• Latent Existence, Where’s the Benefit: “A life on benefits is frankly no life at all” - Why David Cameron is wrong
• Hilary Pilkington and Mark Ellison, Manchester Policy Blogs: Why don’t young people vote?
• Richard Layard, Community Links: A new deal for parents and children
• Sarah Stewart-Brown, the Conversation: Why ignoring mental wellbeing is a risk to public health
• John Tizard, New Start: Devolution and decentralisation have to be fair, equitable and offer hope
• Matthew Taylor, RSA: Whoever wins the future’s lost
Other news
• BBC: Colchester Hospital NHS trust has most ‘never events’
• Children & Young People Now: Councils continue to fail CSE victims, study finds
• CivilSociety.co.uk: Samaritans appoint new chief executive
• Community Care: Unison warns of ‘dire consequences’ ahead for social care
• Inside Housing: MPs concerned about mortgage availability
• LocalGov.co.uk: Police launch new Tower Hamlets probe
• Public Finance: Full Fiscal Autonomy ‘could make Scotland one of five richest nations’
• Third Sector: Greenpeace criticises ‘baseless, biased and bonkers’ advertising watchdog ruling on anti-fracking advert
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