Society daily 12.09.12

Sign up to Society daily email briefing Today's top SocietyGuardian stories • Mid Staffordshire NHS trust may be second to go into special administration • Campaigners launch legal action to try to save Leeds children's heart unit • UK unemployment fall driven by Olympics jobs boost • Facebook vigilantes name alleged paedophiles in Northern Ireland • Children from immigrant families 'face significant challenges' in UK schools • Squatters reopen Friern Barnet library after council closes service • Families plan to cut back on heating this winter to reduce energy bills • Rental market in London and the south-east is 'overheating' • Seumas Milne: The problem with unions is they're not strong enough All today's SocietyGuardian stories In today's SocietyGuardian section • Survey reveals NHS staff fears over reforms • Will the new ministers understand the link between social care and health? • Disabled people need a louder voice in parliament to represent them • Regeneration ousts charity that helped win 'Portas pilot' cash for high street • Barnardo's chief: in the best interests of the children • Twitter can be used to promote community volunteering • Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reforms could end in chaos Jobs of the week • Director, enforcement and crime , UK Border Agency: "This is an important role, safeguarding the integrity of the UK's immigration laws and preventing criminal activity. The post holder will manage several teams and be responsible for detecting, prosecuting, detaining and removing people who are in the country illegally. The role also involves preventing those who could threaten national security and other individuals such as war criminals from entering the UK." • Head of complex needs services , Imagine • Operational lead - team manager (adults) , Hackney council • Head of strategic commissioning , Warwickshire county council The Guardian's public and voluntary sector careers page Hundreds of public and voluntary sector jobs On the Guardian Professional Networks • Live discussion from noon: what does the Social Value Act mean for councils ? • How to get ahead in ... social care management • As Dame Jo Williams leaves the CQC and other bodies gain new chairs, how important is the role , asks David Walker • What healthcare professionals say on NHS reforms • Green belts aren't the panacea we imagine , but knee jerk reactions create uncertainty and a lack of vision, writes Alister Scott • How charities can benefit from key performance indicators On my radar ... • Some eye-opening findings in the latest unemployment figures. Gaby Hinsliff tweets : sorry to spoil Paralympic mood but unemployment rate for those wi work-limiting disabilities up 12.1% in a year (ONS) MP Barbara Keeley adds : Re 12% Increase in unemployment rate of ppl with work-limiting disabilities over last year - increase is 22.6% among women And the IPPR notes that the number of young people out of work has risen for the first time since the government introduced the youth contract. • The astonishing appearance of Dame Jo Williams , the outgoing chair of the Care Quality Commission, before the health select committee yesterday. Williams and CQC chief executive David Behan were speaking at the annual accountability hearing . The Independent reports that she was forced to apologise to MPs for making public allegations about the mental health of whistleblower Kay Sheldon . On his Health Policy Insight blog , Andy Cowper writes: It would be nice to say that Dame Jo handled her evidence about this with dignity, honesty, respect and self-awareness. It would, however, be an unmitigated lie. There may have been more embarrassingly dreadful appearances before a Parliamentary select committee, but there will not have been many. And on twitter, one commenter described the session as a "slow mo car crash". MP Sarah Wollaston writes on her blog that the CQC "should first take a look in the mirror" , and adds: The new Chair of the Care Quality Commission should make it an absolute priority to ensure that whistleblowers at every level in Health and Social Care should feel secure when expressing their concerns. • Nominet Trust's Our Digital Planet Exhibition , which is touring the country to highlighting the benefits of the internet and tackle digital exclusion . On his blog, John Popham, who describes himself as a "social media surgeon", shares what happened on his first day at the exhibition : Some of the people who approached us had very little knowledge of the internet at all, Nearly all were frightened, about giving away too much information about themselves, about losing money to scams, and about breaking something. They faced multiple barriers to getting online, but a common factor was fear engendered by media scare stories. It was evident as well, that quite a few of the people who came along had literacy problems. It amazes me that many people who promote the digital inclusion agenda fail to take into account that a fairly high degree of literacy is needed to use the internet, and that, many who don't go online avoid it for precisely that reason. ... One of the interesting queries was from the young woman who came in under the mistaken impression that we were selling broadband packages. She explained that she had no internet connection at home because her previous supplier had been too expensive. "I'm not paying that for broadband," she said; "that's a holiday". I helped her search for a cheaper supplier. Which shows up the great irony. How do you search for the best broadband package when you don't have access to the internet to do so? • This report from the BBC's Newsround , that coincided with the launch of Save the Children's new campaign to help UK children living in poverty. Inspector Andy Briers of Islington police in London told Newsround that children are turning to shoplifting because of hunger: They're not stealing sweets and chocolate and chewing gum, they're actually going out and stealing bread and food for themselves and their families. (thank you to Virginia Moffatt for the link) • Word of the day, coined by Lee Jasper in response to the news that a rise in hospital admissions for stress has been blamed on the recession : #Osbourneitus • A toe-curling tale from Alastair Campbell's blog on City trader BGC's charity day , an annual event that sees celebrities operating the phones and helping to raise money for good causes to mark the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Campbell, part of the team raising money for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research, came face to face with Peter Capaldi – aka The Thick of It's Malcolm Tucker – and they were encouraged to compete in a "spsonsored swear-off". He writes: ... we all felt very pleased with ourselves until we were told that the mikes were cut because our little exchange was being played not just around the trading floors, but into the creche downstairs! Oh f—-ety f—–k, we echoed. Other news • BBC: Caring for family 'top moral issue for young' • Children & Young People Now: Child custody campaign ends after five years • CivilSociety.co.uk: Amnesty UK staff to strike over cuts programme • Independent: Former care chief 'sorry' for attack on whistleblower • Inside Housing: Inquiry calls for quantitative easing to fund homes • LocalGov.co.uk: Staffordshire CC - DfE plans for education funding could create 'crisis situation' • Telegraph: Soldiers on call to break public sector strikes • Third Sector: Reading Agency given £127,000 to boost volunteering in libraries SocietyGuardian blogs Patrick Butler's cuts blog Sarah Boseley's global health blog SocietyGuardian on social media Follow SocietyGuardian on Twitter Follow Patrick Butler on Twitter Follow Clare Horton on Twitter Follow Alison Benjamin on Twitter SocietyGuardian's Facebook page SocietyGuardian links SocietyGuardian.co.uk The Guardian's public and voluntary sector careers page Hundreds of public and voluntary sector jobs SocietyGuardian editor: Alison Benjamin Email the SocietyGuardian editor: [email protected]