Society daily 20.01.11

Sign up to Society daily email briefing Full coverage: Health and social care bill Lansley unveils health bill as chorus of concern grows What the bill means for the NHS Reforms will axe 21,000 NHS staff and cost £1bn in redundancy Shakeup could set patients against GPs, warns report Milliband attacks "arrogant" Cameron over NHS reforms Public health faces uncertain future Patrick Wintour: NHS cuts took No 10 by surprise Michael White: opening Pandora's ambulance Cartoon: Steve Bell on Lansley's NHS reforms Today's other top Society Guardian stories Mother who met PM asks to put disabled daughter into care Cut benefits for the old to ease child poverty, says Narey Fears of lost generation as youth unemployment hits 1 million Council job cuts tally passes 125,000 Prince Charles challenges greenbelt housebuilding planning ban Zoe Williams: parenting, early intervention and big society Andy Beckett: what post-cuts Britain will look like in 2015 All today's Society Guardian stories Other news • Investment bank Goldman Sachs, which handed out £9.6bn in bonuses yesterday, has cut the amount of money it gives to charity under its corporate giving programme by 36%, reports the Daily Mail • Prejudice against Muslims has become widespread and socially acceptable in Britain , Conservative party chairman Baroness Warsi has claimed, the Daily Telegraph reports. • Councils face more financial pain because under the localism bill they will become liable for EU fines related to directives on recyling and air quality totalling over £1bn, reports the Financial Times (registration needed). • Council cuts threaten to undermine volunteering , says Volunteering England, which says at least 30 local volunteer centres are "seriously under threat." On my radar ... • The heartbreaking Mumsnet talk thread , in which Riven Vincent, having been refused extra respite care by her local authority, says she "can't cope" and has asked social services to put her disabled daughter into care. • Health Policy Insight editor Andy Cowper's incisive Five things you should know about the health bill • Blogger and urban pollinator Julian Dobson, writing on big society – "the message that won't sell and the conversation that won't stop" . • Youth unemployment: how bad is it and what can the voluntary sector do about it? Dom Weinberg researches the stats on this post for NCVO Foresight. • Hay Group's Five Myths about Public Sector pay . Essential reading for Eric Pickles and Grant Shapps. • Saba Salman's blog post on "disco dreams," the dance night for learning disabled youngsters. • The fantastic Patient Opinion. We thought it couldn't get any better, but it is having a makeover. Do you work in public sector HR? The XpertHR benchmarking survey of public sector HR practitioners and employment professionals wants to hear from you about the employment implications of the coalition's public spending cuts. It will look back to what happened in 2010, and forward to the implications for 2011, covering topics including • Cutting wage bills, use of outsourcing to reduce wage bills, use of shared services to reduce wage bills; • Voluntary and compulsory redundancies; • Closure of offices or sites; • Relocation of staff or offices; • Schedules and outcomes of cost-cutting measures. The survey, in association with SocietyGuardian, is running on the XpertHR benchmarking surveys website until 24 January. Events Public Services Summit New models, new relationships, a new era. 10 & 11 February, St Albans. Join leading thinkers, practitioners and policy makers for discussion and debate about the future of our public services. Mobile and Wireless Healthcare Enabling access to care at the point of need. 16 February, Birmingham. This conference is aimed at ICT and service delivery teams in the NHS to give them practical advice and guidance at a time where all we can be certain of is a reduction in public sector budgets. 2 for 1 delegate place offer available. Public Sector Procurement 17 February, Manchester. Only £99 to attend. A one-day conference for public sector buyers and suppliers, exploring new policy and innovation from across the north of England. Society Guardian blogs Patrick Butler's cuts blog Joe Public Sarah Boseley's global health blog Society Guardian on Twitter Follow Society Guardian on Twitter Follow Patrick Butler on Twitter Society Guardian on Facebook Like Society Guardian's Facebook page Society daily blog Society daily blog editor: Patrick Butler Email the editor: [email protected] Society Guardian links SocietyGuardian.co.uk Guardian cutswatch - tell us about the cuts in your area Public - the Guardian's website for senior public sector executives The Guardian's public and voluntary sector careers page Hundreds of public and voluntary sector jobs Society Guardian acting editor: Anna Bawden Email the SocietyGuardian editor: [email protected] SocietyGuardian.co.uk editor: Clare Horton Email the SocietyGuardian.co.uk editor: [email protected]