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| Police were called to at least 43 domestic incidents following England’s opening World Cup match. Officers say that figure is up more than 50 per cent on a normal Saturday night in Staffordshire. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel, Tuesday June 15, 2010 |
| Placing registered organ donors on a transplant priority list and helping to pay their families’ funeral expenses are two radical ideas floated in a report. Both are suggested in ways to encourage organ and tissue donation in a consultation paper. The first would mean offering donors a place at the head of the queue should they need a new organ. The second would involve contributing to funeral expenses of a dead donor’s relatives. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel, Tuesday April 20, 2010 |
| More than £500,000 is being spent on extra social workers to help cope with a “massive increase” in referrals of children at risk of abuse or neglect. Staffordshire County Council says pressures have been partly fuelled by publicity over the death of Baby Peter, who suffered months of abuse as agencies in Haringey, London, repeatedly missed chances to intervene. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel, Tuesday March 2, 2010 |
| The Government’s target of a 50 per cent cut in teenage pregnancies between 1998 and 2010 will not be realised, despite its aggressive sex education strategies and ever increasing availability of contraception and the morning-after pill, which can be given without parental knowledge…The UK remains at the top of Europe’s teenage pregnancy league table. The north-east of England had the highest teenage pregnancy rate, with 49 conceptions for every 1,000 girls aged 15 to 17. | |
| Social Issues | The Universe – March 7th 2010 |
| Years of official denial have ended and the result of mass immigration has been revealed – it is projected to push the population of the country from its present 62 million to 70 million by 2029, half of the increase expected to come from immigrant populations. | |
| Social Issues | The Covenant Nations, 2010 |
| Whilst Facebook was the most popular choice for kids, 9% of parents said they’d allowed their child to lie about their age in order to access the site, where the minimum recommended age is 13. | |
| Social Issues | Inspire, April 2010 |
| Just 11% of parents had checked all Internet settings and actively looked through their child’s activity online to make sure it was safe. | |
| Social Issues | Inspire, April 2010 |
| 48% of parents were not aware of their children’s activity online, and one in four said they trusted that their children would keep themselves safe. | |
| Social Issues | Inspire, April 2010 |
| A study of 1,345 parents by discount code and voucher site www.myvouchercodes.co.uk revealed that 78% had allowed their under-15s to use social networking sites. | |
| Social Issues | Inspire, April 2010 |
| Pro-lifers have voiced their concern over new assisted suicide guidelines, published on February 25, which say prosecutions are unlikely if the act was ‘motivated by compassion’. Dr. Peter Saunders of the Care Not Killing alliance said ‘Anyone who takes part in an assisted suicide is going to claim they were acting out of compassion. The only witness who really knows will be dead’. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, April 2010 |
| Statistics released in February revealed that primary-schoolgirls as young as ten are becoming pregnant. Between 2000 and 2007, more than a dozen girls aged ten became pregnant. In the same period, almost 40 girls aged 11 were found to be pregnant. The figures also show that there were an alarming 60,000 pregnancies for children under 16 between 2000 and 2007. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, April 2010 |
| New figures which reveal that marriage levels have dropped to their lowest since records began in 1862 are not a true reflection of the popularity of marriage, according to the marriage and family life project officer for the bishops’ conference of England and Wales. In the statistics released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS), 232,990 weddings were declared in 2008, the fewest in a year since 1895. Aside from a slight increase between 2001 and 2003, the figures have progressively declined since 1980. The figures also disclosed that the average age for marriage has increased by about three years for both men and women since 1998. On average, women now marry at almost 30 and men at just over 32. “It’s important to note that these figures only include marriages celebrated in England and Wales and not those that take place abroad. I think this is something the ONS are going to have to look at again it they want to offer a serious statistical indication of the proportion of the population who are married,” said Elizabeth Davies. | |
| Social Issues | The Universe – February 21st 2010 |
| The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that abortion, euthanasia, terrorism, and racial, religious and ethnic persecution have the potential to create a second Holocaust in Europe, in a statement marking National Holocaust Day. | |
| Social Issues | The Church of England Newspaper – February 12th 2010 |
| Disgusted General Synod members have called on the Government to subject computer games to more stringent regulations. Former Conservative MP, Thomas Benyon, proposed the motion, saying: “There is a bubbling sewer of gratuitously violent and sexual pornography and DVD games all around us.” Mr Benyon criticised society for its double standards: “Why is it totally unacceptable to portray children in pornography and video games but acceptable indeed lawful to portray the killing and burning of woman in Fatality, the chainsawing up of a woman in Mortal Combat, playing football with severed heads; the chainsaw killing of a man in saw III, rape torture and so on? He quoted Nottingham University Professor of Forensic Psychology and Child Health, Kevin Browne, who said: “The chances of these boys committing such a horrendous crime and sexual assault were definitely increased by watching violent and pornographic games at home.” | |
| Social Issues | The Church of England Newspaper – February 19th 2010 |
| A new study shows that 40 per cent of drivers do not restrain their pets when they are travelling in the car. The research by Autoglass also found that seven out of ten motorists do not realise they can receive a fine or points on their license for having an unrestrained dog in their car. Police officers can penalise motorists for driving without due care and attention if an animal is jumping around in the vehicle. | |
| Social Issues | The War Cry – February 20th 2010 |
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