I read ...

• Anna Coote's briefing for the New Economics Foundation on the "big society". The best and fairest critique I've read so far.

• And also this blogpost, verging on the mystical, from Lord Nat Wei, entitled: "Why big Society may be confusing - and why this is alright."

"There will always be a part of Big Society which will remain mysterious and yet also enticing – like life itself."

• Blogger Public Strategist's thoughts on the uses of government data:

"If you work hard with this data, you can get a sense of what government spent money on. But you can't get much of a sense of what it used the things it bought to do, still less what happened as a result."

• Blogger Artbitrary Constant's reflections on the closure of the Independent Living Fund.

Thus, when the axe swings via the coalition government's Budget on Tuesday, just remember that this is the sort of thing it results in. It's not efficiencies. It's not bloated public spending. It's disabled people not being supported to meet the most basic elements of day-to-day life - getting out of bed, making a cup of tea, or going to the supermarket.

• The Local Government Officer's blog post "Ongoing churlishness about money." Or why Nick Clegg's call for public sector pay restraint is a nonsense ...

• This letter from the Treasury solicitor Paul Jenkins to Mr Justice Foskett, apologising for his department's mishandling of the Sharon Shoesmith case in which large numbers of Ofsted documents relating to the case were presented to the court only at the eleventh hour.

"It is clear that the handling of the case did not meet the high standards that are expected of those entrusted with the conduct of litigation on behalf of the government and for this ... I apologise."

• A PriceWaterhouseCoopers survey report into the (bleak) future of social housing. Its conclusion sounds a little understated:

"The affordable housing sector is bracing itself for a sharp and prolonged period of public funding cuts."

• Blogger Family Lore's reflections on a class action launched (at the international criminal court in the Hague) by 100 British families arguing that their human rights were breached when their children were removed by the family courts

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