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Today's top Society stories
Gift aid system costs charities £750m a year, study finds
Diabetes drug still available on NHS despite experts' call for withdrawal
Fairer spending could save four million children by 2020, says report
Letters: Pickles is wrong to scrap site targets for travellers
All today's Society Guardian stories
Other news
• Ministers have attempted to calm business fears that local enterprise partnerships, due to replace regional development agencies in 2012 will be "council-dominated talking shops," reports the Financial Times
• At least two GPs are earning over £500,000 a year from the NHS, according to the Daily Mail
• Sir Bob Kerslake has been appointed permanent secretary at the Department for Communities and Local government
On my radar ...
• The Guardian's Amelia Gentleman, who has won an award from Counsel and Care for her fantastic piece about life in a care home...
• A promising looking blog from a victim of public spending cuts, A Redundant Public Servant's Blog... (thanks HSJEditor)
• Lord Nat Wei, the government's Big society advisor, who now has his own personal blog and has joined Twitter...
• This Colin Talbot piece on the state and the limits of big society...
"Rather like the fish swimming in the sea has no concept of water, because it is all around them all the time, anyone who says the state in Britain today is not "reverted to" by most people for most of their problems, or at any rate a large proportion of them, is living in a fantasy."
• Ryan Shorthouse on Comment is Free, arguing that Big society has to be about the empowerment of people in deprived communities, not "a feelgood exercise" for "cuddly, compassionate professionals."
• Nick Temple's excellent round of up of the best recent social enterprise links
• The BBC's online archive of its programmes and broadcasts on the birth of the NHS (thanks @patientopinion
• Nick Aldridge on ignorance and "kneejerk indignation" behind media and public attitudes to chugging
In case you missed them ... Society Guardian weekend highlights
UK officials looking at Portuguese "decriminalisation" to drugs
More than 40% of domestic abuse victims are male, says report
All Sunday's Society Guardian stories
All Saturday's Society Guardian stories
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