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Care is failing 1.5 million people with learning disabilities
Police rescue record number of children from online paedophiles
Lib Dems warning to government on big society faith groups
Anti-abortion groups raise stakes by deploying US tactics on UK streets
MS patients denied licensed cannabis drug by NHS
Obituary: Anne McPherson, GP and health campaigner
Community-run railway lines are thriving despite funding cuts
Polly Toynbee: 'Chav' - the vile word at the heart of fractured Britain
Peter Wilby: Faith schools will continue to foster ethnic segregation
All today's SocietyGuardian stories
Other news
• Britain's care homes are facing a deepening crisis as private operators struggle financially, amid concerns over the quality of care, reports the Financial Times (registration)
• Some of the health service's most senior managers will retire on pensions of over £100,000 a year, claims the Daily Mail. It names Sir Neil McKay of the East of England strategic health authority, and Sir Ian Carruthers, of the South West strategic health authority as beneficiaries of the so-called "gold-plated" pension schemes.
• England's biggest NHS hospital trusts are cutting up to 10% of their beds in order to meet tough efficiency targets, according to the Daily Telegraph.
On my radar ...
• This interview with Labour councillor Jake Morrison, 18, who defeated Lord Storey, the Lib Dem politician and Liverpool's longest-serving councillor, in May's local elections. The healthcare assistant, who was not even old enough to vote when he was selected to fight the Wavertree ward. Morrison told the BBC:
"After I'd won, some of the older residents especially, were giving me hugs and offering me cups of coffee," he said. "And yes, I suppose they do try to mother me."
• Richard Blogger's fascinating analysis of Circle Healthcare, the part-employee-owned private hospital group which claims to be a "social enterprise"
• A flurry of commentary on Sharon Shoesmith's appeal court victory overturning her dismissal, from blogger Independence Red, the rather angry barrister Denis Kavanagh , a more measured piece by Joan Smith in the Independent, a classic example of rambling, impotent fury in the face of hard facts by Victoria Lambert in the Telegraph, some forensic analysis by employment lawyer Darren Newman ,and typically insightful reflections on the case by blogger Steve Toft, and social worker and blogger Fighting Monsters.
• Some difficult questions for the government asked by Joseph Rowntree Foundation's John Low in this blogpost on how spending cuts are impacting on neighbourhood programmes and volunteering.
• Blogger Flipchart Fairy tales on the power of embarrassment in corporate life and management decision making:
"Given the choice between making more money and avoiding the risk of looking stupid, a lot of people will choose the latter. Designing our organisations in ways that will minimise embarrassment therefore makes perfect sense."
• Political Scrapbook's pertinent observations on benefit fraud and MP's expenses
• Another Liverpool councillor, Richard Kemp, on credit cards and council spending smear stories
• Community group Barnsley Voice and South Yorkshire police, which are combining to enforce on the spot £80 fines for swearing, according to the Guardian's Northerner blog. Phil Davies, from Barnsley Voice, explained the etiquette of policing foul-mouthed tirades:
"There is nothing wrong with swearing, I do it everyday, but it is when it is targeted at somebody."
On the Guardian Professional Networks
• Liverpool mental health and learning disability trust Mersey Care is putting human rights at the core of its work with patients
• Anne Gibson, president of the Public Sector People Managers' Association, on senior management and the implications of redundancies made at the top
• Anna Levy from the Hub King's Cross on how a sports brand has become the first major business to put a price tag on its environmental impact
• UK charities spend an average of £250,000 a year on getting to far-flung places - so how can they get better value for money?
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