Society daily 25.02.11

Camden council cuts services for the elderly. Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Today's top SocietyGuardian stories

• Camden councillors agonise over need to cut almost 1,000 jobs

• Health and social care bill 'fails to safeguard NHS patient data'

• Lord Davies tells big firms to double number of women directors

• Julia Finch: Women directors: why I've changed my mind

• Police cuts put vulnerable children at risk, chief constable warns

• Feature: The big fat truth about Gypsy life

• Fall in payroll giving takes wind out of 'big society' sails

• Campaigners launch legal challenge to library closures

• Records of Victorian women murderers and thieves placed online

All today's SocietyGuardian stories

Other news

• Sir David Nicholson, who is set to become chief executive of the NHS commissioning board when GP consortia are set up, tells the BBC that hospitals need to adapt and change to remain competitive. He does, however, not expect any hospitals in England to shut completely

• Though the number of obesity-related admissions to hospital increased by 30% last year, NHS statistics show the increase may now be flattening out

• The Telegraph shows a gallery of shocking before-and-after pictures that have been used in a campaign to discourage people from using drugs

On the Guardian Professional Networks

• The Right to Request initiative is giving staff the freedom to leave the NHS and provide their service as a social enterprise

• The Charity Commission will have fewer one-to-one interactions with charities and focus more on mitigating bigger risks to the sector, says chairman Sam Younger

Events

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