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• Local authority cuts: one year on
• Peers demand tougher rules for EU medics
• Children lost from care in trafficking cases
• Wales debates ban on smacking
• Dale Farm residents prepare for last stand against eviction
• Malaria vaccine could save millions of children's lives
• Observer writer wins Human Trafficking Foundation Media Award
• Patrick Butler's Cuts blog: Ministers take an axe to the social enterprise bill
• Alison Garnham: Edwina Currie's poverty claims are a chilling blast from the past
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• Library closures: what can local people do?
• MP paves the way for more social enterprises to deliver public services
• Mark Johnson: How to prevent riots: invest in young people, don't criminalise them
• David Brindle: Why social care providers want their stars back
• Will the new head of the civil service be in a weakened position?
• Is the health lottery good news for charities?
• Plus: special focus on social care - new agendas for the support of young and old
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• BBC: Call for care homes 'revolution'
• Children & Young People Now: Pickles issues warning to councils that delay plans for troubled families
• Community Care: 'Cut social workers' planning role to empower users'
• Independent: Families now spend half their income on rent
• Inside Housing: Task force to examine social mobility and housing
• Localgov.co.uk: Shapps should be 'ashamed' of failings in housing policy
• Public Finance: Public sector pay slumps as inflation rises
• Telegraph: Cutting NHS drug errors could save 16,000 lives a year
• Third Sector: Communitybuilders reopens to make loans to charities
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