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Today’s top SocietyGuardian stories
• George Osborne sets out pre-election budget - live updates
• UK benefit cap is lawful, supreme court rules
• Homes for Britain rally puts housing firmly on election radar
• Study reveals scale of child sexual exploitation in West Midlands
• Home secretary: Cyril Smith cover-up claims ‘could lead to prosecutions’
• The Guardian view on an establishment child sex abuse ring: no more excuses, no more delays
• UK justice minister ‘complacent’ over 38% rise in prison deaths, say MPs
• What should we do with violent children? One secure home may have the answer
• Key Labour NHS pledge impossible to deliver, says influential thinktank
• How will future governments fund retired workers?
All today’s SocietyGuardian stories
In today’s SocietyGuardian section
• Fruit and vegetable vouchers could buy poorer people a more nutritious diet
• Dawn Foster: Sanctions and the benefits labyrinth – coming soon to a stage near you
• Phillip Inman: Budget 2015 - tax giveaways will not help low-paid workers
• Zara Aziz: My patient was able to lose weight after her knee surgery
• Peter Beresford: Why we need a statue to celebrate disabled people’s achievements
• Rape victims with petty convictions denied compensation
• Emma Stewart: Flexible working makes good business sense
• Northern Ireland’s equality tsar: equal treatment is an article of faith
Jobs of the week
• Her majesty’s inspector, social care, Ofsted
• Media manager, Peta
• Director of operational services, Sense
• Children’s services manager, the Portland hospital
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On the Society Professional Networks
• The social worker who changed my life - six people tell the stories of what social workers have done for them
• Baby boomers need to leave a better housing legacy to younger people, says David Orr, chief executive of the National Housing Federation
• If the NHS is going to thrive, patients must use the system more efficiently by keeping their scheduled appointments, says GP David Turner
• Does it matter where a charity’s money comes from if it’s going to a good cause? Tim Smedley reports
• Privatisation has failed. It must not become official UN policy, writes Rosa Pavanelli, general secretary of Public Services International
Pick of the blogs
• Duncan O’Leary, Demos: What’s going on
• Maria Goddard, the Conversation: Fact Check - has turning the NHS into a market cost £10 billion?
• Julia Segar, Anna Coleman and Kath Checkland, Manchester Policy Blogs: DevoManc - does the future of health and social care start here?
• Holly Dorning, the Nuffield Trust: Fact or Fiction? Declining hospital performance is down to a few ‘bad apples’
• Richard Humphries, the King’s Fund: The coalition government’s record on social care
• Rich Watts, Arbitrary Constant: Two cultures in public services and how to bridge between the two
• Barry Knight, New Start: Why the current approach to poverty is wrong
Other news
• BBC: Morbidly obese could get free flu jab
• Children & Young People Now: Government commits to overhaul of children’s mental health services
• CivilSociety.co.uk: Family Lives charity can ‘no longer meet demand’ following £500,000 funding cuts
• Independent: Taxpayers ‘picking up bill for NHS outsourcing failure’
• Inside Housing: Landlords hoping for supply boost in the Budget
• LocalGov.co.uk: Council staff balloted for strike action over outsourcing fears
• Public Finance: Civil service blunders will continue ‘without skills overhaul’
• Telegraph: Tories will promise new powers to evict gypsies
• Third Sector: Local government minister Kris Hopkins backs the Pickles ‘sock puppet’ statement
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