Society daily: 22.02.10

Today's top society stories Baby Peter doctor unfit to face GMC tribunal Stop funding homeopathy on NHS, say MPs Denham targets £20bn in council cost cutting We'll give carers a week's break, say Lib Dems Councils and NHS not family friendly, says charity All today's Society Guardian stories In case you missed them... Sunday's Society Guardian stories Saturday's Society Guardian stories Other news • The Crown Prosecution Service is facing eight cases of alleged racism brought against it by members of staff , including claims that staff were "segregated", reports the Independent. The CPS denies the claims. • Ministers are to crack down on excessive housing benefit payments by capping the rates paid to private landlords in a bid to stop families on benefit "living in palatial homes at the taxpayer's expense", says the Times. • Community bus social enterprise HCT Group, fromally known as Hackney Community Transport, is to raise £5m via an innocative new "social loan" to fund an expansion plan, reports the Financial Times. On the blogs There's a flurry of publicity in some of the newspapers about a blog written by Mark Cato, a 75-year old academic who writes (dictated via a voice-activated computer) with unsentimentality and candour about his experience of motor-neurone disease in Life Goes On. It's done with self-deprecating upper-middle class brio, mixing detailed, unselfpitying accounts of the everyday frustrations of disability with reflections on assisted suicide, and ruminations on his passion for rugby, golf and champagne. Society Guardian events Family Futures conference 2010: what's next for services supporting children, young people and families? London, Wednesday 24 February. Speakers include: Dawn Primarolo, Claire Tickell, Tim Loughton, Sue Berelowitz. Managing New Realities 2010: integrated places - health, housing and social care for the community. London, Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 March. Speakers include: Lord Warner, Sir Bob Kerslake, David Halpern, Polly Toynbee. Society Links Sign up to Society daily email briefing Society on Twitter SocietyGuardian.co.uk Public - The Guardian's website for senior public sector executives Get ahead: the Guardian's public and voluntary sector careers page Hundreds of public and voluntary sector jobs Email the SocietyGuardian editor: [email protected]