Andrew Lansley has praised the Lib Dems and admitted that he always knew there would be uproar over his NHS shakeup. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
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• Cabinet colleagues on board with NHS shakeup, insists Andrew Lansley
• Suzanne Moore: This level of healthcare privatisation is shocking
• Prison governor locks out probation staff in G4S joint bid to privatise jails
• Government U-turn on work scheme
• Workfare: nobody loves it like ministers
• Ken Livingstone pledges return of EMA for London students
• Legal aid U-turn for brain-damaged babies and domestic violence victims
• What has Boris Johnson actually done for London?
• Anti-abortion fanatics are threatening free speech, warns academic
• Zoe Williams: On capitalism we lefties are clueless – it's not just a rightwing caricature
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• CloudStore taken offline by Microsoft Azure outage
• Today's models of healthcare are not designed to cope with the problems of an ageing population, says Dr Samir Sinha
• Elected mayors: can councils learn from the mistakes of the past, asks David Marlow, former chief executive at Doncaster
• Why many empty homes are just not worth refurbishing
• Social media can help to connect communities but it is not a shortcut to higher participation, says the Young Foundation's Mandeep Hothi
On my radar ...
• The Nuffield Trust health policy summit, which continues today, including a panel debate on the future of the NHS with Paul Corrigan, Stephen Dorrell and Shirley Williams. Follow the event via Twitter using the hashtag #ntsummit
• Self-injury Awareness Day, an annual awareness campaign, being marked around today. In a moving post for Comment is free, my colleague Mary Hamilton writes about how she managed to stop self-injuring and get on with her life:
During the decade when I was self-injuring, and in the years since, I have been lucky enough to get superb NHS treatment. Lucky, because for many adults their experiences of mental health services are months-long waiting lists for specialist treatment, busy A&E departments, a service stretched almost to breaking point that can't offer them the care that they so desperately need. Mental health professionals, nurses, doctors, teachers, family, friends – all took fantastic care of me, even when I was so ill I was fighting every step of the way against the hard work of getting better.
For a long time I thought my struggles with mental illness would always be written on my body in letters so large they couldn't be ignored. Nowadays it's hard to divine my history. That's true for a vast majority of people with mental health issues, whether recovered or not; a part of our identities is hidden. The stigma attached to mental illness is very real, and has a double impact. On one hand, depression and self-injury are not things you feel able to casually mention, despite the fact that it might be a constant presence in your life. On the other, it is still hard to break through the perception barrier that suggests successful, seemingly together people might once not have been so – and might in fact currently be struggling, however they appear from the outside.
• The Big March, charity Beatbullying's "virtual march for children's rights", which is taking place today. Avatars of supporters of the march - including charities, teachers, parents and students - will "march" across the websites of partners including Facebook, Clarks, Universal Music and TalkTalk. Beatbullying is calling for the United Nations to protect young people from all forms of bullying and child on child violence.
Other news
• BBC: Council tax freeze plan 'flouted'
• Children & Young People Now: Children's Improvement Board appoints former Liverpool council chief
• Community Care: Review raises prospect of fines for social workers found unfit to practise
• Independent: Lib Dems hope to finally kill health reforms
• Inside Housing: Housing supply expert questions government plans
• Telegraph: Council tax rises are a mistake, says housing minister
• Third Sector: Charities should not be on proposed lobbying register, argues NCVO
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