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Today’s top SocietyGuardian stories
• Theresa May pledges £15m to keep mentally ill people out of police cells
• Too many die without dignity, says report on end-of-life care
• Video game link to psychiatric disorders suggested by study
• Police offer to help drug users with ‘annoying’ dealers
• Bullied children more likely to suffer from adult obesity and heart attacks
• Tessa Jowell launches London mayoral bid with housebuilding pledge
• Ian Birrell: Could Michael Gove become a liberal hero by reforming our prisons?
• Ann Robinson: Of course GPs hear people’s relationship problems – they can’t be divorced from ‘health’
• Toxteth then and now: photographs of a bygone Liverpool
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In today’s SocietyGuardian section
• Cities have it all to play for. But will elected mayors give power to the people?
• Jane Collins: All healthcare professionals must be trained in palliative care
• David Brindle: If homecare businesses collapse, the health system will be in real trouble
• Stewart Dakers: Older people must lead the fight against austerity unfairness
• Nick O’Donohoe: Let’s reinvent payment by results
• Sharing family life is a popular choice for learning disabled adults
• Family reunited after housing battle led to homelessness and separation
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• Chief executive, St Anne’s Community Services
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On the Society Professional Networks
• Olive Cooke death: does fundraising regulation need reform? Open thread
• Social work in Greece: ‘I haven’t been paid for nine months’
• Four men have turned to photography, in a pilot project funded by Prostate Cancer UK, to share their views and experience of living with the disease
• Housing benefit cuts for under-21s would be disastrous for young people, says Paul Noblet, of the Centrepoint youth homeless charity
• Visiting my dad in prison, I realised the public sector can mistreat people too, says anonymous blogger
Pick of the blogs
• Anoosh Chakelian, New Statesman: The 23 most terrifying things in the Tory manifesto
• Paul Sellers, Touchstone blog: Britain now most unequal EU country, says official report
• Emily Andrews, Institute for Government: Whitehall statistics - Getting to know the new government, in five charts
• Rob Foster, We Love Local Government: What happens next?
• Joanne Tippett, Manchester Policy Blogs: Don’t forget! Innovation in engagement in mental health delivery
• Jonathan Bradshaw, the Conversation: In which countries are children happier – and why?
Other news
• BBC: Family breast cancer ‘as treatable’ as other tumours
• Children & Young People Now: Youth justice system ‘fails vulnerable girls’
• CivilSociety.co.uk: Family of Olive Cooke say charities are not responsible for her death
• Community Care: Stress and health problems among carers on the rise as care cuts take their toll
• Inside Housing: Rent fears as UK enters deflation
• LocalGov.co.uk: Council duo inch closer to joining West Midlands Combined Authority
• Public Finance: CPI-linked bond ‘could provide model for local government borrowing’
• Telegraph: Britain faces mass strike action as Osborne prepares spending cuts
• Third Sector: Doorstep and telephone fundraising deemed ‘very annoying’ by almost half of survey respondents
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