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| Britain has the highest rate for teenage pregnancy in the EU. | |
| Social Issues | Sword – November / December 2006 |
| One in thirty young people aged 16-25 have experienced homelessness. | |
| Social Issues | Sword – November / December 2006 |
| Four million children grow up in poverty in Britain today. | |
| Social Issues | Sword – November / December 2006 |
| Does prison work? A recent report from the Home Office reveals that 57% of adult offenders are convicted of another crime within two years of walking out of the prison gates. | |
| Social Issues | Salvationist – 18th November 2006 |
| More than nine million people are held in prisons throughout the world. | |
| Social Issues | Salvationist – 18th November 2006 |
| Antisocial behaviour is the top safety concern of Britons, according to Legal and General. Research by the company reveals that 23% of people are concerned about yob culture in their area and the threat it poses to personal safety. | |
| Social Issues | The War Cry – 28th October 2006 |
| Over 125 years experience of working with some of the most disadvantaged children and families in the country has taught The Children’s Society that the most important aspect of a child’s life is the quality of his or her relationship with a responsible adult. | |
| Social Issues | The Church of England Newspaper – 8th September 2006 |
| Young British Women would prefer a good career to a rich husband. Women between the ages of 18 and 28 would rather have the lives of authors and broadcasters such as JK Rowling and Fiona Bruce, the Wag lifestyle of Coleen McLoughlin and Abi Clancy. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – 27th September 2006 |
| Young British Women would prefer a good career to a rich husband. Women between the ages of 18 and 28 would rather have the lives of authors and broadcasters such as JK Rowling and Fiona Bruce, the Wag lifestyle of Coleen McLoughlin and Abi Clancy. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – 27th September 2006 |
| There are 6,990 looked after children in the West Midlands. Six out of ten (65 per cent) enter the care system through abuse or neglect. | |
| Social Issues | NCH – September 2006 |
| Almost half of British adults enjoy a relationship with someone they have never MET - thanks to the internet, according to new research. A staggering 44 per cent of people have a friendship with a stranger they only know through chatrooms and 'social networking' sites. Research shows that 22 per cent of Brits regularly update an online profile, enabling people to see their details and contact them. A quarter of people agreed that relationships conducted over the internet are far less taboo than they were three years ago. And nearly a quarter of professional workers said that meeting people online is now an acceptable way of socialising for busy, career minded folk. | |
| Social Issues | www.wayn.com – August 2006 |
| The average British person has a mere TWO true friends they can rely on according to new research. Although most people claim to have up to 14 mates, over half of us admit they're not close pals and say they stay friends out of 'habit'. But 70 per cent of folk say they've lost touch with the majority of their good pals over the years. A busy 12 per cent don't have the time, a third "just drifted apart" and 30 per cent said if they don't see a mate regularly enough they don't bother to get in touch. But a whopping 59 per cent said they wish they had kept in touch with pals from their school days and regret not making the effort. | |
| Social Issues | www.wayn.com – August 2006 |
| Workers in the Potteries (Stoke-on-Trent) are among the poorest paid in the UK. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – 14th August 2006 |
| The Home Office was accused of failing to close a loophole allowing immigrants to stay in the UK illegally, after an undercover investigation found evidence that some language schools were operating as visa factories. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – 29th June 2006 |
| The Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt Rev Nicholas Reade is urging affluent Anglicans to tour the back streets of deprived cities in his diocese so they can understand the problems of poverty. | |
| Social Issues | The Church of England Newspaper – 30th July 2006 |
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