Society daily: 08.09.10

Follow Society Guardian on Twitter Follow Patrick Butler on Twitter Sign up to Society Daily email briefing Today's top Society stories Tories must stop linking poverty to bad behaviour, leftwing thinktank warns Survey found that a third of the world's population had given money to charity in the last month, and 45% had helped a stranger Suicides on the rail network rose last year, say Samaritans Government spending cuts plan see no settlements In today's Society - Cutswatch special: Anna Bawden reports on how cuts are starting to hit frontline services. Our specialist writers examine where the full force of next month's comprehensive spending review will be most keenly felt New research suggests people will pay to for some services in order to save others, says David Brindle Are we missing the bigger pictures on cuts, asks Nick Seddon We must keep the services that girls desperately need argues Carlene Firmin Why the General Social Care Council must be saved says Nick Johnson and Heinz Wolff, one of Britain's leading science professors, tells David Brindle why technology is not the answer to meeting the care needs of our ageing population All today's Society Guardian stories Other news Government's poverty tsar warns that Sure Start must be protected from spending cuts reports the FT Spending cuts could turn out to be the Con-Lib coalition's poll tax, provoking popular revolt as well as difficult industrial disputes warns Brendan Barber, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, the FT reports Connaught, the social housing maintenance company, is preparing to go into administration, becoming one of the biggest corporate failures of the recession and placing 10,000 UK jobs under threat says the Daily Telegraph On my radar... • Charity shops. This £600m business sector is booming according to the latest Charity Finance survey . Cheap property, low wages and and a public on the hunt for bargains have seen income rise 10% ... • Deliverology. As explained by Tony Blair's former deliverologist-in-chief Sir Michael Barber (reported by @GuardianPublic ). This is Barber on the "leadership dilemma": "You have to have a long-term strategy if you want to have a significant and lasting impact; but the long-term strategy has to deliver short-term results otherwise you won't be believed." • The Woolpack Inn, the pub which won fame as a location for TV soap Emmerdale , is closing. The Campaign for Real Ale blames the Coalition's axing of a community ownership scheme prevents it being saved by locals. • What might replace regional development agencies? Here's LGC's list of proposed local enterprise partnerships ... Events Driving efficiencies in public sector ICT , 30 September, London: a one-day conference for senior IT professionals to re-examine the way they work, cut costs and deliver vital efficiency savings. Public sector online , 4 October, London: a one-day conference examining how public sector professionals can engage with their audience to deliver services more effectively and strategically online. Society Guardian blogs Joe Public Sarah Boseley's global health blog Guardian awards Guardian Public Services awards 2010 Guardian charity awards 2010 Society Daily blog Society Daily blog editor: Patrick Butler Email the editor: [email protected] Society Guardian Links SocietyGuardian.co.uk 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]