Society daily: 09.07.10

All today's top Society Guardian stories NHS funds to be distributed by doctors under proposed reforms Ministers to use Facebook to field ideas on spending cuts Jamie Oliver calls for funds to back school meals revolution NHS care quality rating scheme scrapped Baby P's doctor failed him, tribunal finds All today's Society Guardian stories Other news • Morale at the Care Quality Commission is at a low ebb, according to results of an internal staff survey leaked to Community Care. It showed just 16% of staff felt the CQC was well managed, 14% had confidence in the decisions made by the executive board and just 8% felt change was well managed, the magazine reports. • Standards in old people's homes are likely to fall because of spending cuts, the Daily Telegraph reports. • Triodos bank is closing its £3m venture capital fund for social enterprise after it completed just one £320,000 deal in two years . Triodos chief executive Charles Middelton told Social Enterprise magazine that there were not enough social enterprises "that were ready for, and had the appetite for, equity." On my radar... • Blogger and HR specialist Karen Wise's top five challenges for public services making big cuts (thanks to Flip Chart Fairy Tales for the tip). • This report back, with videos and links, of the Safeguarding 2.0 presentation by Futuregov at Nesta this week. Can digital technology improve child protection? Yes, but in small steps, seems to be the message. As one particpant points out "The partnership between social work and technology ha[s] never been easy..." • A row over the veracity of claims made by all-the-rage progressive social policy text The Spirit Level that income inequality directly produces a range of social ills, from crime to obesity and mental illness. Sociologist Peter Saunders published his critique this week in a pamphlet entitled Beware False Prophets for the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange (see also this Comment is Free piece by co-author Natalie Evans ). You can read the riposte by Spirit Level authors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett here ... • Sally Gainsbury of HSJ on how Andrew Lansley's NHS reforms will disrupt the economy of primary care , and what the consequences will be. Detailed, and lots of numbers but stick with it... "With the inevitable requirement to manage GP expectations over how free they are really to spend those hard earned surpluses, it's hard to see how the reinvention of another rather clunky commissioning bureaucracy is not on the cards." Guardian awards Guardian Public Services awards 2010 Guardian charity awards 2010 Society Guardian social enterprise summit We are starting to plan this year's Society Guardian Social Enterprise Summit. Last year's summit was a great success – you can read about it here . Once again we are looking to showcase inspiration, innovation and practical ideas on how social enterprises can deliver public services. Whether you are from the public sector or from a social business, we want you to tell us who you'd like to see and what you would like to see discussed. Email to [email protected] . You can follow Guardian Social Enterprise on Twitter Society Guardian blogs Joe Public Sarah Boseley's global health blog Society Daily blog Society Daily blog editor: Patrick Butler Email the editor: [email protected] Follow Patrick Butler on Twitter Sign up to Society Daily email briefing Society Guardian Links SocietyGuardian.co.uk Follow Society Guardian on Twitter Enter the Guardian Public Services Awards 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 editor: Alison Benjamin Email the SocietyGuardian editor: [email protected]