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Today’s top SocietyGuardian stories
• Labour pledges to end dependency on food banks with welfare reforms
• Scottish Labour pledges £175m ‘anti-poverty fund’
• Pensioners mock David Cameron at Age UK conference
• Ban fast-food outlets from hospitals, MPs demand
• Consuming three alcoholic drinks a day may cause liver cancer – study
• Gangs operated openly in Dorset prison, say inspectors
• Polly Toynbee: Labour, drop the benefits doublespeak and let’s hear your underdog-whistle
• NHS reform: what next for the world’s best health system?
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In today’s SocietyGuardian section
• Can family support reduce Northern Ireland’s high infant death rates?
• Saba Salman: Learning-disabled people are dying because they receive less good care
• Denis Campbell: Where is the political will to save the NHS?
• Mary O’Hara: New fronts in US activists’ fight to raise poverty pay
• The UK has a lot to learn about gender equality from countries like Rwanda
• Innovations that offer independent living to young adults with complex needs
• Disabled people shut out of politics by lack of access at polling stations
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• Chief executive officer, APT Action on Poverty
• International director, Micah
• International senior executive India high growth markets unit, Scottish Enterprise
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On the Society Professional Networks
• Should the right-to-buy scheme be expanded?
• I loved being a midwife but bullying, stress and fear made me resign
• The science behind why people give money to charity
• The music of mental illness: how a new project aims to challenge stigma
• No one identifies as a ‘neet’: why words are so important in public services
Pick of the blogs
• Kate Belgrave: When exactly did it start being okay to treat people with learning difficulties like trash?
• Carwyn Hooper, the Conversation: Call time on soft approach to Big Alcohol
• Judy Robinson, New Start: Where are the citizens in devolution plans?
• Laurence Brown, Manchester Policy Blogs: Two things we need to say about race that are true
• Tazeem Bhatia and Alisha Davies, Nuffield Trust: Can the NHS help tackle the UK’s obesity epidemic?
• Rick, Flip Chart Fairy Tales: Austerity - as you were
• Robyn Munro, Institute for Government: Rollercoaster or not, arguing over spending cuts is a pointless task
Other news
• BBC: NHS approach to obesity inexplicable, say MPs
• Children & Young People Now: MPs call for national parenting support programme
• CivilSociety.co.uk: One in seven charities ‘struggling to survive’, say CAF and Acevo
• Community Care: Mental health staffing problems linked to ward suicides
• Independent: Iain Duncan Smith refuses to meet with food bank charity about poverty – then meets with investment bankers about it instead
• Inside Housing: Landlords threaten legal action over Right to Buy extension
• LocalGov.co.uk: Warning that social care will swallow council tax revenue by 2020
• Public Finance: RSA puts forward blueprint for city devolution
• Telegraph: Migrants who won’t learn English to be stripped of housing benefits under Tories
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