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Big society: actually, it's achieved a great deal (no, really...)
8 May 2012, 13:22 BST: Cuts have devasted the government's flagship social policy, a report said this week. But ministers beg to differ. Tell me what you make of the big society's supposed "key achievements". -
A4e controversy: now even Emma Harrison's charity feels the heat
24 Apr 2012, 15:11 BST
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Zoe Williams: Shareholders and CEOs are benefiting from the outsourcing boom. But done differently, society could look much fairer -
Twenty years of working in the health service has taught me that technocratic reforms alone are not enough to improve efficiency and care
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There is no doubt that there is a close link between the increases in financial support for families with children over the past decade and the fall in child poverty
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Shanene Thorpe: I trusted the BBC when they asked to interview me on the cuts. Portraying me, a working mother, as a benefits scrounger is appalling
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Maggie Gee: Land was donated in 1900 with a proviso it be used for a library – the council's 2am raid is a shameful attempt to break the deal
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Charities facing challenging times must adapt, and that goes for those who commission their services
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan: Instead of smearing a peaceful street party outside Nick Clegg's home, ask who is really 'targeting familiies'
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Marika Giles Samson: By fighting our library's closure, we've shown how communities can work together and achieve extraordinary things
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Today we are looking at school breakfast clubs, and the health impact of poverty and welfare reform
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Ministers said the drop reflected a deliberate policy shift to promote private sector employment, which increased by 205,000
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Standing in for the prime minister and the leader of the opposition at PMQs, the foreign secretary, William Hague, and the shadow deputy prime minister, Harriet Harman, both urge doctors not to go on strike on Thursday
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Speaking at PMQs, deputy Labour leader says 125 treatments have been rationed or stopped due to financial constraints
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Austerity: we're looking at the rise in the numbers of children arriving at school hungry
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Party must show it has made tangible improvements to services before next election, says Sean Worth
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Here are the honest and sobering responses by teachers to the Guardian's pupil hunger survey
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Pensioners in a Somerset village are losing their weekly bus due to cuts. Brigid has a solution
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Shrinking incomes, rising living costs: we're looking at how the UK is coping with austerity
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Teachers, civil servants … this is not 'squeezed middle' but low pay households who will bear £5bn of coalition spending cuts
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Arts funding cuts
Would Big Brother's Peter Bazalgette bring philanthropy to the Arts Council?
Education cuts and closures
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Letters: The government's 'right to choice' and its 'community right to challenge' are a cover-up for privatisation by the back door
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Tom Riddington: Extortionate tuition fees will force people like me out of higher education and mean that only the rich can afford to study
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Anne Fine, Ian Rankin, Monica Ali and Andrew Motion join campaign to save 'exemplary and hard-working' staff in an area where unemployment has topped 11.5 percent. Allan Glen checks their progress
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Police officers demonstrate against cuts and 'privatisation' of force – video
More than 30,000 officers from all over the country march through the capital in the biggest demonstration by police ever held in England and Wales
