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5 hours ago
News, comment, blogposts and tweets across the sector3.11pm: Lizzi Easterbrook writesThanks to everyone who took part in our live Q&A on leadership earlier. We will be doing a round-up on the site next week and you can still read all the comments here.Elsewhere, your views on the news looks at the r[...]
6 hours ago
The latest fashion in child-rearing is about regulating the behaviour of women, not benefiting childrenWas it just a few weeks ago that Time ran a cover story claiming women were poised to become "the richer sex" – getting more education than men, working up a storm and, in one out of four marriag[...]
8 hours ago
Cameron defends parenting classesSign up to Society daily email briefingToday's top SocietyGuardian stories• Parenting lessons: this is not the nanny state, says David Cameron
• Child support charges could increase poverty, warn MPs
• Remploy bidders offered wage subsidy
• Pa[...]
• Child support charges could increase poverty, warn MPs
• Remploy bidders offered wage subsidy
• Pa[...]
8 hours ago
Join our panel of experts from 12pm on Monday 21 May to discuss how the housing sector can provide for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residentsOne in five lesbian and gay people expect discrimination from housing providers when applying for social housing, according to a YouGov poll commissi[...]
10 hours ago
A Which? survey finds 57% of borrowers are encouraged to take out further loans, while a third say they experienced greater financial problems as a result of taking out the loanAlmost two-thirds of people who took out expensive payday loans have used the money to pay household bills or buy essential[...]
18 hours ago
Fees to access maintenance collect by replacement to Child Support Agency also penalises women, says committeePlans to charge single parents for access to the replacement for the Child Support Agency could worsen child poverty, MPs have warned.The public accounts committee also expressed concern tha[...]
1 day ago
Nicholas Crace becomes oldest living kidney donor in UK and one of 100 people who have donated to a stranger while aliveHe has given blood 57 times, he is a volunteer driver for a local hospice, and now Nicholas Crace has scored a double first at the age of 83 – becoming the oldest living kidney d[...]
1 day ago
Paying us the minimum wage will make the legal profession the preserve of the richThe Solicitors Regulation Authority has just voted to scrap the tailored minimum wage for trainee solicitors and over the next two years will seek to implement a salary in line with the national minimum wage.I came to [...]
1 day ago
How can charities maximise online donations?With the voluntary sector on course to lose £3.3bn a year in government funding by 2015, according to the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, charities have no choice but to devise new ways of raising funds. Harnessing advances in technology thr[...]
1 day ago
Voluntary organisations need to encourage charitable giving through social mediaWith the voluntary sector on course to lose £3.3bn a year in government funding by 2015, according to the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, charities have no choice but to devise new ways of raising funds. H[...]
1 day ago
Statins could benefit health of millionsSign up to Society daily email briefingToday's top SocietyGuardian stories• Statins could benefit health of millions
• Government 'failing to get enough homes built'
• Dave Hill: The London social housing squeeze
• Why are houses in Brit[...]
• Government 'failing to get enough homes built'
• Dave Hill: The London social housing squeeze
• Why are houses in Brit[...]
1 day ago
News, comment, blogposts and tweets across the sector11.49am: Jessica Fuhl writesWe have two new pieces on the network today. Richard Vize asks what does the abandonment of two commissioning support services mean for the NHS reforms?He argues:Just weeks after the health reforms passed into law, seri[...]
1 day ago
Ruth Margrove lists her top five tips for staying sane during examsFor most, May means blossoming trees and the first snatches of summer. For students it means long hours, piles of pressure and an impending sense of doom.I'm no stranger to pre-exam butterflies – or the occasional late-night panic.[...]
1 day ago
Outstanding Edwardian building in Leeds looks to a bright new future after a model community campaign. John Baron takes the plungeOne of the oldest swimming pools in Yorkshire has moved from local authority control and into community ownership in a bid to preserve its future.The future of Edwardian [...]
1 day ago
CFG chair: 'flabbergasting' budget risks treating charities as 'collateral damage', reports David Mills
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Nicholas Crace praised for altruism after donating his kidney to a patient on NHS waiting-list that he does not knowAn 83-year-old man has become the oldest living kidney donor in the UK and the oldest person in the country to give a kidney to a stranger. Nicholas Crace is the latest member of an ex[...]
1 day ago
One in three hospital patients with condition affected by errors that could lead to dangerously high or low blood glucose levelsNearly one in three hospital patients with diabetes are affected by medication mistakes that can lead to dangerously high or low blood glucose levels, checks have revealed.[...]
1 day ago
Number of completed homes in 2011 less than half what government admits is required annually to meet demandMinisters are failing to tackle the housing crisis and not enough new homes are being built, leading to rising rental levels and growing homelessness and overcrowding, according to a report by [...]
1 day ago
Brent council backs off from emptying shelves, as protesters complain offer to run service with volunteers was ignoredShortly after midday on Wednesday, one of the local authority workers caught up in the often bitter hostilities between Brent council and those fighting to save Kensal Rise library t[...]
1 day ago
Ministers says scheme loosely modelled on military service returns £2 to communities for every £1 spent on itMinisters will hail the National Citizen Service as the success story of the "big society" on Thursday, revealing it will climb to 90,000 places in 2014, and for every £1 spent on the sche[...]
2 days ago
Undercover investigation by BBC Arabic reveals allegations of abuse of mentally and physically disabled childrenThe king of Jordan has ordered an inquiry into allegations of abuse in private children's homes that were made in an undercover investigation aired in the country this week.The BBC Arabic [...]
2 days ago
Northern narrowboat is a modest prelude to the Thames flotilla. And we want their flag.When you've got a socking great ceremonial barge to sail in on the river Thames, you need a bit of practice. Where better than on the Leeds-Liverpool canal in Burnley?That's what the Queen decided. Maybe she was a[...]
2 days ago
Our public services awards are open for entriesSign up to Society daily email briefingToday's top SocietyGuardian stories• Free home care available to fewer elderly people
• Home care, stealth tax and the elderly: which councils charge the most?
• UK unemployment fall raises hopes re[...]
• Home care, stealth tax and the elderly: which councils charge the most?
• UK unemployment fall raises hopes re[...]
2 days ago
Nice says advanced sufferers in England and Wales should get abiraterone after fresh information from manufacturerA drug to treat advanced prostate cancer should be given to patients on the NHS, a health watchdog has said.Abiraterone, marketed as Zytiga, can extend the lives of late-stage cancer suf[...]
2 days ago
Deaths from cancer in Britain have fallen 40% in people aged 50 to 59, according to figures produced by Cancer Research UKDeaths from cancer among 50-somethings have fallen to their lowest level in 40 years, thanks to better diagnosis, fewer people smoking and new drugs improving patients' chances o[...]
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