Society daily 21.02.12

Sign up to Society daily email briefing Today's top SocietyGuardian stories • Nick Clegg to offer 'neet' solution for unemployed 16- and 17-year-olds • David Cameron's NHS summit guests refuse to follow reforms script • Polly Toynbee: How Cameron's NHS cheats waiting-list figures • Why the weight is so hard to shift: guidelines have been wrong all along • Pressure mounts on DWP to suspend A4e contracts after fraud claims • Chris Grayling defends work experience scheme from 'negative headlines' • Rachel Reeves: Labour need to regain economic credibility with the public • The female unemployment crisis • Are government cuts closing refuges for domestic violence victims? • Distance learning breaches prison walls All today's SocietyGuardian stories In tomorrow's SocietyGuardian pages • David Brindle meets Michelle Mitchell, charity director general of Age UK, who is calling on the government to embrace radical proposals on paying for elderly care • Mary O'Hara reports on a new initiative that aims to counteract the stereotype of older people as dependents or burdens • Whitney Houston's daughter, Bobbi Kristina, is just one of many children struggling with the death of an addicted parent , writes Carlene Firmin • The government's new homes bonus is not working and the gimmicks likely to be unveiled at the budget won't create the houses we need, warns Peter Hetherington • The health service must retain experienced leaders able to work with doctors, nurses and other clinicians to provide the best possible care, writes Chris Ham • Being happy isn't only down to the individual, argues David Harper • Coaches whose past experiences must include addiction or imprisonment are helping to keep Scotland's ex-offenders on the straight and narrow On the Guardian Professional Networks • Live Q&A from 1pm: Better financial planning for charities • Councils spend £515m in four years on CCTV • Billions will go to waste if we can't establish the principle it's the government's job to get the best return on the taxpayer's pound , warns Peter Holbrook • What makes a great public sector leader ? • An issue of confidence: social media for nurses and midwives On my radar ... • Campaigner, carer and blogger Nicky Clark , who has made a series of films for us interviewing prominent people who live with - or care for someone with - a disability. In the first film, broadcaster Jo Whiley talks movingly about how her family has been affected by her sister's learning disability , and why she campaigns against disablist language. In a separate interview, Clark explains to Patrick Butler how she became an accidental activist . Further interviews, with Warwick Davis, Sally Bercow and Tanni Grey-Thompson, will be going live online later in the week. • The Good Care Guide , a new website enabling families to find, rate and review providers of childcare and eldercare . Launched by United for All Ages and My Family Care , the site received nearly 20,000 visitors in its first 24 hours after it launched this weekend, and hundreds of reviews and ratings have already been posted. Interestingly, the site says it has received four times as many positive reviews as negative ones. Other news • BBC: Baby P social workers to appeal over sacking • Children & Young People Now: Croydon council blasted for changes to childminder support • Community Care: Overhaul training for best interests assessors, Burstow told • Independent: Call to axe free OAP bus travel • Inside Housing: Council approves 2,000 home development • LocalGov.co.uk: Pickles aims to settle prayer row • Public Finance: MPs query disability benefit 'savings' • Telegraph: Stamp price hike will have 'disastrous' effect on elderly and vulnerable • Third Sector: Institute of Fundraising calls for reforms to boost payroll giving Events and seminars Local Government Leaders Quarterly Thursday 19 April 2012 Kings Place, Kings Cross, London This series of evening events has been designed to help public leaders discuss the key issues facing local authorities as they struggle to manage punishing funding cuts while spearheading a revolution in public service delivery. 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