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Today’s top SocietyGuardian stories
• Doctors to withhold treatments in campaign against ‘too much medicine’
• Psychiatric drugs do more harm than good, says expert
• Better-educated women contributing to rise in UK alcohol consumption – OECD
• Food industry ‘responsibility deal’ has little effect on health, study finds
• Barratt hails election result as a positive move for housing industry
• On the road to Wigan pier, it’s the women driving change
• Jacques Delors: One in four young Europeans are jobless. We need to help this lost generation
• Rosa Davies: This Tory win will make me more and more disabled
• How attitiudes to working women have shifted in one generation
• Patrick Wintour: David Cameron’s Tories – blue collar or blue blooded?
All today’s SocietyGuardian stories
In today’s SocietyGuardian section
• We need a new kind of politics: a vote every five years is not enough
• Will English regions get Manchester-style devolution?
• The Tories musn’t turn their backs as more children fall into poverty
• Working as a part-time GP is intense and draining. No wonder morale is so low
• No honeymoon for Jeremy Hunt as health role throws up painful issues
• Legal aid lawyers fear further cuts under the Conservative government
• Mental health cuts are ‘driving people to the edge’
Jobs of the week
• Head of corporate partnerships, Unicef
• Director/associate director of communications, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey mental health
• Head of community operations, Isle of Man government
• Director of operations, Royal Free Charity
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Mental health awareness week on the Society Professional Networks
• Self care for social workers: how mindfulness can help
• Charities risk losing staff if they fail to promote wellbeing
• Frontline blog: I work in mental health but colleagues don’t understand my depression
More from the Professional Networks
• Small charities are key to Nepal’s recovery, writes Freda Casagrande, chief executive and founder of HiCap UK
• Eight things the new government should prioritise for the NHS
• Trade union leaders explain what they expect for the future of public services under the Tories
• Channel 4’s Benefits Street masks the real housing crisis, says communications consultant Ian Hembrow
Pick of the blogs
• Heather Spurr, New Statesman: Without a U-Turn, the homeless will be the biggest victims of the Conservative victory
• Glen Ocsko, We Love Local Government: So long and thanks for all the flags
• Mireia Jofre-Bonet, the Conversation: Why the new government’s plans to save the NHS won’t be enough
• Ruth Thorlby, Nuffield Trust: The NHS and the General Election - a false sense of security?
• Jill Rutter, Institute for Government: What might David Cameron learn from John Major’s experience?
• Ken Clark, Manchester Policy Blogs: Wanted - A post-deficit economic narrative for Britain
Other news
• BBC: UK unemployment falls to seven-year low
• Children & Young People Now: Doncaster sees surge in adoptions
• CivilSociety.co.uk: Labour almost twice as popular as Tories with voluntary sector voters, poll finds
• Community Care: Welsh Government unveils ‘can and can only’ eligibility test for social care
• Independent: Adoption rates in freefall after court ruling leaves children languishing in unsuitable homes
• Inside Housing: Supreme Court ruling to widen homelessness help
• LocalGov.co.uk: Most councils failing to offer core services online finds research
• Public Finance: Northern Ireland ‘faces further cuts without welfare reform deal
• Telegraph: Turner Prize 2015 shortlist - Liverpool council houses nominated
• Third Sector: NatWest sets up £2.5m fund to give grants to charities, social enterprises and community groups
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