• The Youth Justice Board is to be abolished and its responsibilities transferred to the Ministry of Justice, reports Community Care, ending widespread speculation about its future. Justice secretary Kenneth Clarke has dashed hopes of a rescue for the board, saying a government amendment would be brought forward to reintroduce the YJB to the list of quangos to be abolished in the public bodies bill, now before parliament.

• An investigation is underway after a two-year-old climbed onboard a bus and travelled alone 28 miles (45km) from Powys to Shropshire, according to the BBC.

On my radar ...

• The People not Punchlines campaign, featured in this post on our blog yesterday, which is gathering momentum. Nicky Clark, who launched the campaign calling for a change in hate speech laws to include disablist language such as "retard" and "spaz", took part in this morning's Your Call phone-in with Nicky Campbell (listen on the iplayer) on Radio 5 and is due to speak on the BBC World Service at 1.40pm today. Meanwhile, the legendary Martin Wainwright on a new campaign launching in Bolton this weekend. Called I'm not Laughing, the campaign involves neighbourhood police, the community safety team and the town centre's business partnership and aims to tackle disablist prejudice in the town. It was prompted by a heartwrenching letter from a young woman (quoted in full in Martin's post), who relates what happened to her and her boyfriend - who also has a disability - on a pre-Christmas night out in the town:

"My boyfriend and I decided to dance, and it was obvious we were being stared at but we ignored it, and after a short while we made our way back to our seats.
A group of lads were pointing towards us, laughing and swearing, and it was beginning to get too much.
Because it continued we decided to leave the pub, and made our way towards the exit, the group also left at the same time, and continued to take the Mickey out of us, swearing at us, pretending that they couldn't see us, they were generally mocking us, the whole group were laughing and generally abusing us.
I began to get upset.
What made it worse, was the door staff, they just stood there, with their arms folded, watching and sniggering, without making any attempt to stop the group.
The lads surrounded us and it was very frightening.
Yet still the door staff did nothing.
I thought they were supposed to look after people, make the places safe, to stop this kind of behaviour.
They didn't."

Good luck to the people of Bolton in tackling this behaviour.

• Campaigners Kaliya Franklin and Sue Marsh, who are to debate welfare reform in a Left Foot Forward seminar at a Compass conference this weekend. Do read this post on Franklin's Benefit Scrounging Scum blog, which describes how her condition has affected the practicalities of travelling to the event:

"... we've been really sensible me and Sue. We've known this date was coming for weeks, we've planned to travel the day before, spent the whole week resting in preparation and employed our specialist disabled organisation skills to the max to ensure everything runs smoothly. Whilst we might be able to control bookings, what we want to say and how to say it, the one thing we simply cannot control however hard we try is our own bodies.
And this is really what 'fit for work' with a fluctuating chronic condition means. I might stop vomiting in another half an hour or so and be tired but fit to travel. I hope so, I usually do. But on the other hand I might not. And there's no test in the world that can change that, no possibility of health improvements to reassure an employer, it just is what it is. None of us with these variable conditions can control them, whatever the latest trendy biopsychosocial model of "it's all in your head" the DWP have snatched upon as proof we can be removed from our benefit dependancy and forced into jobs that don't exist. Day by day we just don't know and can't control our conditions. So really....should an employer be expected to?"

• This gorgeous, uplifting film showing what happened when a flashmob of 400 people with and without disabilities gathered in Melbourne's Federation Square, brought tears to my eyes (thanks so much to

Sandy Liricman and Mencap for sharing).

• A fundraising auction by the Literacy Trust. Transforming Reads features books donated by 16 well-known writers, including Alan Bennett, Judith Kerr and Tom Stoppard. Each has written personal inscription explaining why they have donated the book - illustrator Axel Scheffler included a picture of the Gruffalo with his signature - and how the book transformed their life. The trust lost all its government funding in April this year, and will use the money raised by the auction to help to fund its work supporting the literacy of disadvantaged communities across the country. But hurry, bids close at 2pm today.

• The Autism Show, a new event aimed at people on the spectrum, their parents and carers, and professionals in the field, which is taking place in London this weekend. It includes one-to-one clinics with specialiksts including speech and language therapists, educational psychologists, occupational therapists, behaviour analysts and legal advisers; stands by more than 50 suppliers of products and services; seminars and presentations. The work of photographer Kayte Brimacombe, whose work featured in a recent SocietyGuardian.co.uk gallery, will also be exhibiting her work.

• New research from the Institute of Education, which shows that social cohesion is the UK is threatened by the erosion of opportunities, particularly for young people. Regimes of Social Cohesion (pdf), by Andy Green and Germ Janmaat, looked at societies around the world and found a strong relationship between the distribution of skills among adults and levels of social trust and civic cooperation. So in Nordic countries, where skills are more evenly spread around, levels of trust and cooperation tend to be higher, while in the UK, there are high levels of income inequality and relatively low rates of social mobility. The authors warn that rising unemployment and public spending cuts are likely to restrict social mobility further, and will have a particular impage on young people and women. Their research is being officially launched at a briefing in London next Tuesday.

• Co-operatives, which are being celebrated at an event in Birmingham this weekend. Co-operative Congress 2011 is the biggest gathering of co-operative representatives in the UK and brings together delegates representing the £34bn co-operative sector of the economy. The event marks the start of Co-operatives Fortnight, which aims to highlight the sector's contribution.

• Tweet of the day comes from Dr Fiona Pathiraja, watching TV coverage of Wimbledon

"Sue Barker on BBC1 just now saying that some players earning are "£25-£30k" which "isn't enough to make a living". Has she ever met a nurse?"

On the Guardian Professional Networks

• Mobile technology can allow community nursing staff to stay out of their offices - but many of them want to come in anyway, according to NHS bodies that have introduced schemes

• Social enterprises and charities are finalists for the first time in the annual Grampian Awards for Business Enterprise, showing social entrepreneurship can transform society, writes Gary McEwan, chief executive of organiser Enterprise North East Trust

• Chartered Institue of Housing 2011: Grant Shapps ushers in a new era of transparency in housing