Today's top Society Guardian news and comment
Yarl's Wood family wing to close
Death rates prompt shake up call for vascular surgery
Stonewall attacks TV portrayal of gay people
Free schools risk social and racial segregation, says study
Letters: stop squabbling over social care "death tax"
Tim Lang: its wrong to carve up the Food Standards Agency
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Other news
• The health service in England is beginning to cut number of staff, according to latest NHS information centre figures reported in the Financial Times
• Ministers are to dismantle the 24-hour drinking laws introduced under Labour. A bill will be introduced in the Autumn, reports the Daily Mail
• The Coalition will today launch national citizenship pilots which will give 10,000 16 year olds a social action volunteering placement
• Former home secretary David Blunkett has criticised cuts to youth services stemming from the Coalition's decision to cuts area-based grants, reports Children and Young People Now
• Scouts will in future be able to earn an "entrepreneur" badge alongside more traditional accomplishments such as knot-tying and map reading. One activity will involve scouts pitching business ideas to a Dragon's Den style panel, reports the Financial Times
On my radar ...
• This incredibly moving interview on the Today programme this morning with John Dale, a former soldier and Iraq war veteran suffering from traumatic stress disorder. Very sensitive interviewing by Justin Webb...
• Lee Bryant of Headshift on Big society and the role of social networks in solving social problems...
• A fascinating blog post which discusses how much we should give to charity, by Jane Thomas at New Philanthropy Capital
• An article in the Economist on what business can learn from charities...
• Flip Chart Fairy Tales on how the NHS chewed up and spat out one of the country's most respected corporate troubleshooters
• David Floyd of Beanbags and Bullsh!tn asks why the Big Society bank is so small...
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