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Patrick Butler

Society daily 21.10.2010

Chancellor George Osborne Announces The Governments Spending Review 2010
Spending review 2010. Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/Getty Images

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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

Leader: the work of a gambler

All spending review 2010 stories

Today's other top Society Guardian stories

Recorded crime falls by 8%

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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