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Today’s top SocietyGuardian stories
• The case for cuts was a lie. Why does Britain still believe it?
• The case against austerity – video
• Election 2015: taxpayers worse off under every party, experts say
• Just 43 homes on the market affordable for first-time buyers in London
• Campaigners win right to challenge assisted dying prosecution policy
• Children bullied by peers ‘at greater mental health risk’
• UK top of the nutrition scorecards; France and the US could try harder
• The King’s warning: expert says George VI should be anti-smoking image
• Mirage e-cigarette ad banned for ‘indirectly promoting’ tobacco products
• Patrick Butler’s cutsblog: Too tight to mention - why the Tories won’t talk about welfare cuts
All today’s SocietyGuardian stories
In today’s SocietyGuardian section
• What will the election mean for the UK’s public services?
• Helping to unlock the secrets of autism
• Geoff Mulgan: We need to fix the machinery of government – whoever enters No 10
• Mary O’Hara: As wheelchair-inaccessible buses show, regulation only gets us so far
• Liz Kendall: ‘The hospital of the future will start in people’s homes’
Jobs of the week
• Chief executive officer, Wirral community NHS trust
• Director of children’s services, States of Jersey
• Director of operations, Scotland, Leonard Cheshire Disability
• Interim director of resources, Advance UK
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On the Society Professional Networks
• Making a difference: volunteers and charities around the world – in pictures
• Swedish council becomes first to limit private profits in healthcare
• How assistive technology could make independent living more than just empty rhetoric
• After the scandal, what next for Tower Hamlets and Lutfur Rahman?
• The young homeless people’s election manifesto – in pictures
Pick of the blogs
• Dominic Campbell and Carrie Bishop, FutureGov: A nuanced post about local government finance
• John Appleby, King’s Fund: Manifesto pledges: more money for the NHS... problem solved?
• Mark Dayan and Sarah Wilson, Nuffield Trust: 10 NHS myths to watch out for
• Jill Rutter, Institute for Government: Do this election’s manifestos suggest parties are learning to love quangos?
• Scott Taylor, the Conversation: To run the NHS better, we must remember the people at its heart
• June Eric-Udorie, New Statesman: Where are the ethnic minority women in politics?
• Matthew Whittaker, Resolution Foundation: How far apart are the Conservatives and the Lib Dems on fiscal policy?
Other news
• BBC: Ofsted inspections harm children’s services, says report
• Children & Young People Now: Labour would not raise residential care leaving age to 21
• CivilSociety.co.uk: Charity demands to be removed from Telegraph list of small businesses supporting Conservatives
• Inside Housing: Labour vows tougher rural affordable housing requirements
• LocalGov.co.uk: Reform ‘absurd’ council tax system, urges IFS
• Public Finance: National politicians not trusted on spending, CIPFA poll finds
• Telegraph: GP vacancies rise by 50 per cent in just year
• Third Sector: Next government ‘should work with charities to improve Gift Aid take-up’
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