Public sector cuts
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Labour backing as MPs give the go-ahead to child protection outsourcing plans
10 Sep 2014, 11:48 EDT: Labour criticises regulations to enable councils to contract out safeguarding services to charities - but waves them through anyway -
Bedroom tax: the Coalition's welfare Achilles' heel
5 Sep 2014, 14:00 EDT
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Zoe Williams: In a landscape of outsourcing, social enterprises can counter the culture that has hollowed out our services
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Jonathan Portes and Howard Reed: Our analysis of the effect of changes to tax and welfare will hopefully introduce more transparency into policymaking
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Guardian Professional
Finance staff could make a stand without any direct impact on patient care, so why don't we, asks Jonathan Allsopp
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Welfare expert Matthew Oakley should have spoken to me. I could have told him all about benefits sanctions, says Darren Head
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Claudia Wood: To reduce the benefits bill, the government needs to address issues such as high rents and low wages rather than tightening eligibility for what can be claimed
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Polly Toynbee: A radicalism tempered by discipline reignited the spirit of 97 this weekend. But the deficit always hangs over Labour’s campaign
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Guardian Professional Orange Tide organisation brings together social workers and service users to protest against austerity measures
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Polly Toynbee: With food banks full, the prime minister is badly out of touch if he thinks there is any public appetite for an assault on the workforce
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Letters: A government that reduces police funding so far below safe levels does not deserve the title
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OBR says welfare and debt interest payments may rise with cuts to hit public sector pay and procurement to balance the budget
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Patrick Strudwick: LGBT voluntary and community organisations suffer disproportionately from coalition cuts, TUC report shows
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From uniforms to study trips, state schools don't do enough to mitigate the corrosive effects of poverty on their least well off pupils, say campaigners.
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Alastair Sloan: A new alliance of people working in the creative arts aims to reverse the government's austerity programme
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Hilary Benn accuses government of unfairness as he publishes data that shows cuts for richer councils are up to 16 times smaller
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Policy Exchange says 'green guardians' could help stem deterioration of green spaces under threat from spending cuts
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Latest accounts reveal more than 38,000 'exit packages' agreed since reforms began, with some 4,000 later rehired
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Parents angry after 'disastrous' attempt to reprovide home-school transport service for children with special educational needs at half the cost goes wrong
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Mandatory reconsideration of fit-for-work appeals can pitch claimants into a Kafka-esque maze, leaving them penniless and hungry, an MPs report notes
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Arts funding cuts
‘Commercial’ is not a dirty word: meet the new breed of theatre producer
Why UK theatre should look beyond its borders
As belts are tightened in the UK, international partnerships such as Simon Stephens's remarkable Three Kingdom will make British theatre far richer, writes Lyn Gardner
Education cuts and closures
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Public sector workers are staging a nationwide one-day strike over pay, pensions, jobs and spending cuts
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Andrew Rawnsley: Behind the scenes, Labour's Treasury team has begun to identify how it would squeeze spending to balance the books if the party were to win power
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Dave Pickering: Thanks to austerity, many kids in Enfield will now be missing my songs and stories – but it's the poorest who will miss them most
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Public-sector protest draws thousands across London - video
Thousands of school workers, firefighters and local government workers joined rallies, picket lines and the march to Trafalgar Square on Thursday
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