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Full coverage: the comprehensive spending review
Follow reaction to the spending review on Andy Sparrow's politics live blog.
Osborne on CSR: there is no Plan B
Spending review axe falls on the poor
Welfare bears the brunt as extra £7bn of cuts unveiled
Spending review: the winners and losers
NHS budget rise will feel like cut, says thinktank
Councils hit by huge drop in funding but new responsibilities
Disabled people among the hardest hit by spending review
Biggest shakeup in social housing could 'hit poorest hardest'
Spending review: questions over charities and the 'big society'
Child benefit changes to hit additional 300,000 families
Ken Clarke pledges to cut daily prison population
£2bn for elderly care likely to be absorbed by council cost-cutting
Cuts are 'huge assault on working families and working mothers', says Labour
Vulnerable 'shut out of society' by spending review welfare cuts
Leeds fears bleak future after cuts
Hundreds attend Leeds City Square cuts protest
Spending cuts: 'Westminster doesn't understand how people will suffer'
Protest against cuts in Cardiff ahead of weekend demo
All spending review 2010 stories
Spending review 2010: Guardian commentary
Polly Toynbee: what's the fuss about? Just you wait
Tom Clark: The truth about George Osborne's reforms
Spending review: the Guardian columnists' verdict
Seamus Milne: Bullingdon boys want to finish what Thatcher began
Patrick Butler: local government takes a pummelling
Larry Elliott: Welfare claimants the biggest losers
David Conn: the axe will fall on community sport
Public services experts on the coalition's plans
Spending review 2010: service users' perspectives
Letters: political limbo over spending cuts
All spending review 2010 stories
Today's other top Society Guardian stories
Mother who killed brain damaged son challenges conviction
Datablog: UK life expectancy figures show the difference money makes
Joshua Rozenberg: Coalition in the dock over prisoner voting
All today's Society Guardian stories
Guardian and Observer Christmas Charity Appeal 2010
Nominations are now closed for our Christmas appeal 2010, which will support charities working with vulnerable teenagers and young adults. Many thanks to everyone who applied.
Our Christmas charity 2010 partners New Philanthropy Capital are now sifting through the 300 applications we recieved. A shortlist of projects will be submitted to a selection panel comprising Guardian/Observer and NPC staff at the end of October. Ten projects will be chosen.
We will contact both successful and unsuccessful applicants once the panel has reached it decision in early November. The appeal will launch towards the end of November and run until mid-January.
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Information Security and Identity Management in the Public Sector, 3 November 2010, London. Keeping pace with new threats. Hear from Christopher Graham, Information Commissioner and Belinda Lewis, Ministry of Justice
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Guardian Social Enterprise 2010, 16 November, London. An interactive conference for anyone delivering public services or supporting social enterprises. Speakers include: minister for civil society Nick Hurd; Peter Holbrook, chief executive of the Social Enterprise Coalition; Allison Ogden-Newton, chief executive, Social Enterprise London; Lord Victor Adebowale, chief executive, Turning Point; Rod Schwartz, chief executive, Clearly So; Dai Powell, chief executive, HCT; Alastair Wilson, chief executive, School for Social Entrepreneurs.
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Discover how the innovative use of technology will improve performance and response in difficult financial times.
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