Society daily 28.1.14

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Today's top SocietyGuardian stories

Jobcentre staff 'should be rewarded for getting people into work, not off dole'
Vince Cable undermines chancellor with 'wrong sort of recovery' message
NHS faces £24m bill after glue injected into girl's brain at Great Ormond Street
Education inequality in England: where is the gap widening?
Jackie Ashley: Think there's a cap on elderly care costs? Think again. You're in for a shock
Lisa Longstaff: The benefit cap is supporting state child abuse
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett: Porn's influence is real. Sex education is the answer
Michele Hanson: NHS hospitals are over-run with rules and regulations
Dave Hill: Boris backs Labour council tax hikes. Seriously.
Letters: It's not just adult mental health services that are hurting from cuts
All today's SocietyGuardian stories

In tomorrow's SocietyGuardian section

• Local people in Stoke-on-Trent are buying boarded-up properties for £1 and investing £30k in a bid to get a run-down area back on its feet
• Charlotte Walker, aka the Bipolar Blogger, on why the government's good intentions on mental health aren't enough
Food banks show welfare cuts and inefficiency cause hundreds of thousands of people to depend on emergency food aid, says Patrick Butler
• Scathing criticism of Nursing and Midwifery Council says its delays are causing trauma to nurses and patients. David Brindle reports
• All too often services work with young people who have come to the attention of police, but not with their sisters and brothers who risk being drawn into offending, writes Carlene Firmin
• By playing on our fears and aspirations, the government's welfare reforms are demonising benefits claimants, says Peter Beresford
• The looming election has brought on the numbers game – but can we trust the figures underpinning public services, asks David Walker

Jobs of the week

Head of refugee support and international family tracing, British Red Cross
Director, English language services, Korea, British Council
Director of practice, performance and planning (services), Scope
Director of commercial and finance, Metropolitan police
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Hundreds of public and voluntary sector jobs

On the Society Professional Networks

Housing officers should receive more training and support to help residents affected by welfare reforms, says Charlotte Cook
• Spending crisis could spark a local government finance revolution, predicts Richard Vize
Civil service jobs are failing to attract the best candidates, says Sir David Normington
• The way healthcare staff work with colleagues across different organisations must change to achieve the vision for integrated care, writes Andrew Clegg
• What will the voluntary sector look like 10 years from now?

Pick of the blogs

• Stephen Jeffares: The Big Society lasted 1000 days. Will we ever see ideas of its like again?
• Beanbags and Bullsh!t: It's not dead, it's trading?
• Stephen Bubb, New Start: Local impact funds - Growing the local social economy
• Jonathan Stanley, Huffington Post: Empathy not rhetoric needed to address the reality of our children's homes
• Julian McCrae, Institute for Government: Clarity of accountability – are permanent secretary objectives helping?

Other news

• BBC: Custody healthcare a 'major problem'
• Children & Young People Now: Councils fail to find privately fostered children
• CivilSociety.co.uk: Drinkaware changes board after criticisms over links to alcohol industry
• Community Care: Campaigners criticise government's 'half measure' support for child trafficking victims
• Inside Housing: 'Catastrophic' injunctions for social tenants overturned
• LocalGov.co.uk: Cracks beginning to show in Welsh councils, auditors warn
• Public Finance: Bidding opens for £1.7bn Affordable Homes Programme
• Telegraph: Anger over NHS 'U-turn' on prostate cancer drugs

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