Society daily: 08.07.10

• Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude wants the 20 biggest suppliers to government - including BT, Serco and Hewlett Packard - to cut their prices as part of the coalition's deficit reduction plan, according to the FT. The paper also reports that local government cuts could cause "catastrophic damage" to some of England's heritage buildings.

• Smaller adult social care providers could go under because of rising costs and council cuts, reports Community Care

On my radar...

• Blogger Dan Slee on how local government can "do" Facebook (or how Coventry city council went from 300 "friends" to 11,000 in just a few weeks)...

• Patient Opinion which has announced that MPs are to get a feed containing comments from patients about the quality of their treatment at local hospitals. The service was launched at Westminster last night. According to PO founder, GP Paul Hodgkin:

"For the first time, MPs will have a feedback service tailored to their constituents and their hospitals and clinics. They will be able to see quickly and easily what is working well and what isn't, and whether their local health services are responding to a satisfactory level."

• The School Food trust statistical report on take up of school lunches. Take up is up, contrary to what health secretary Andrew Lansley claimed last week...

• This video by the estimable Sir Gerry Robinson on why it is wrong for the LibCons to ringfence NHS spending...

• And this blog by Paul Corrigan on why the government's promise to "protect" the NHS budget is looking increasingly hard to keep...

• Adrian Fradd from New Philanthropy Capital pinpoints the practical difficulties facing Justice minister Ken Clarke's prisoner "rehabilitation revolution"...

"Working out an individual organization's impact on reoffending rates is massively complicated, time-consuming, and imprecise. Attribution is a nightmare, with ex-offenders often receiving help from multiple different organizations, both in prison and on release. Did someone stop offending because of a literacy course, housing advice, drugs treatment or simply because they get a bit too old?"

• Simon Dickson at Puffbox blog on how a government website can end up costing £35m. Quite easily, apparently...

• Blogger David Floyd on whether social enterprises ought to be a little less optimistic about the potential opportunities created by the public spending crisis...

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