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Today’s top SocietyGuardian stories
• NHS stress: a third of GPs plan to retire in next five years
• Election 2015: Nick Clegg makes his coalition pitch - live
• David Cameron promises to double free childcare and revive right to buy
• Tory housing association right-to-buy policy attacked by big business
• Suzanne Moore: Extending right to buy is the Tories’ zombie Thatcherism at its worst
• Owen Jones: If you vote for the Tories’ right to buy, where will your children live?
• Green party launches manifesto aimed at ending ‘disastrous policy of austerity’
• Focus E15 housing activist arrested on suspicion of squatting
• Alzheimer’s study finds possible cause of disease
All today’s SocietyGuardian stories
In today’s SocietyGuardian section
• The Tories will reduce UK public spending to Estonian levels
• Which are the best countries in the world to live in if you are unemployed or disabled?
• Roger Howard: DrugScope’s closure concerns us all and jeopardises the future of drug policy
• ‘Every low-paid interviewee knows their hourly rate to the penny’
• Hannah Fearn: Define home life for learning disabled residents in Botton with care
• Lee Ridley: ‘Disabled people are either inspirational, or benefit cheats’
• How lessons from the building industry are transforming mental health services
Jobs of the week
• Wales director, Scope
• Strategic director adult social care, Leicester city council
• Head of policy and influencing, the Stroke Association
• Head of policy and research, General Optical Council
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On the Society Professional Networks
• Probation service split: ‘staff are staring into the abyss’
• How to get through the first few years of child protection social work
• Confessions of a charity professional: It’s not the Lobbying Act that is gagging charities - it’s our internal politics
• NHS managers are more than just ‘bureaucrats with clipboards’, writes Richard Vize
• We need a new deal to restore the rights of social housing tenants, argues Hannah Fearn
Pick of the blogs
• Neil McInroy, New Start: Raising the volume on poverty and inequality in cities
• Jill Rutter, Institute for Government: Educating Jeremy - how will the new Civil Service master’s course make a difference?
• James Laurence, Manchester Policy Blogs: The redundancy trauma
• Matthew Honeyman, the King’s Fund: Reconfiguring NHS services - necessary but fraught with difficulties
• Frances Crook, Howard League: New rules on prisoner property
• Martyn Sibley: What disables you?
• Myfanwy, MySociety: Can you believe everything you hear? Fact-checking claims ahead of the election
• Richard Exell, Touchstone: Saving Our Safety Net Fact of the Week - local government cuts are hitting the poorest areas hardest
Other news
• BBC: Council sports budgets cut by £42m
• Children & Young People Now: Ofsted’s Debbie Jones quits social care director post
• CivilSociety.co.uk: Ice Bucket Challenge effect brings down average online donation average
• Community Care: Care applications reached all-time high in 2014/15
• Inside Housing: Right to Buy policy ‘could spark human rights challenge’
• LocalGov.co.uk: Unions fear ‘return to Thatcher’ under Tory strike laws
• Public Finance: ‘Immediate action’ needed to boost nursing numbers, says RCN
• Telegraph: Secret NHS plans overheard on the train
• Third Sector: A Green government would abolish the charitable status of private schools
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