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| 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 |
| Children as young as five, whose parents abuse drugs and alcohol, are being targeted in a new project to stop them becoming addicts. It is estimated more than 1,300 children aged under 16 live with a drug-using parent in Stoke-on-Trent. As part of a £500,000 project, a new “hidden harm” youth worker will be one of six new members of Stoke-on-Trent’s young people’s drug project. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel, Tuesday March 2, 2010 |
| The power of prayer has helped to catch criminals, increase detection rates and reduce the number of people killed on our roads, according to a senior Devon and Cornwall Police officer. Inspector Roger Bartlett, a staff officer with 23 years’ experience, said he was “convinced” that people’s faith had a positive impact on policing. The committed Christian, is part of the leadership team of the local Christian Police Association (CPA). He explained: “I presented to the group a significant rise in northern Devon of the number of casualties killed or seriously injured on the roads and asked them to pray for this number to come down.” After the request, incidents fell from 97 in 2007/08 to 32 in 2008/09. “Not only was this a 67 per cent reduction on the previous year, and a far greater fall than any other area of the force, it was also more than 50 per cent lover than the next lowest annual figure locally (66).” | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Catholic South West, March 2010 |
| The Daily Mail reports that a woman held her baby for two hours until he died, while doctors stood by refusing to help. Why? Because he was born two days too soon. Guidelines in Britain hold that any baby born prior to 22 weeks not be resuscitated because such resuscitation would be futile and the baby would die anyway. Little Jayden was born at 21 weeks and 5 days. Even if the mother pleads for help? Which she did? Sorry – no can do – was the message to her. | |
| Family | Lifetimes, December 09/January 10 |
| “A million New Yorkers are good without God. Are you?” reads posters that go up in New York subway stations. Campaign sponsored by eight atheist organisation known as the Big Apple Coalition of Reason, seeks to promote awareness of atheists in the city and, according to one spokesman, encourage “talking and thinking about religion and morality.” | |
| World Issues | Lifetimes, Issue 81, December 09/January 10 |
| Money may not be able to buy you love, but in Japan it can buy you friends. Office Agents, a Japanese firm, rents out temps for $200 to fill out a wedding party or even fill up the room where the wedding is take place. | |
| Money | Lifetimes, Issue 81, December 09/January 10 |
| Christian Church leaders have united to put Christian values at the forefront of the election campaign by launching a ‘declaration of conscience’. They launched their statement of values ahead of Tuesday’s meeting between Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Thirty senior Church figures, including Scotland’s Cardinal Keith O’Brien and the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, have called on British Christians “to vote with their conscience, guided by their faith.” They have signed a statement calling on political parties to back policies including support for marriage, freedom for those of faith to live their lives according to their beliefs and opposition to assisted suicide and euthanasia. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Universe – April 11th 2010 |
| The first-ever advertising campaign aimed at promoting the benefits of religious practice has been launched in Ireland. The campaign will feature up to 110 bus shelters across the Irish capital hosting posters with the message: “Here’s a little science. The practice of religion is good for you.” Through these advertisements and a dedicated website- www.relgious-practice.ie – the Inona Institute aims to highlight the findings of research into the medical and social benefits of religious belief. The campaigns message is based on the findings of research carried out by leading Irish psychiatrist, Professor Patricia Casey, for her paper The Psycho-Social Benefits of Religious Practice, which was commissioned by The Iona Institute and released last year. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Universe – April 11th 2010 |
| Cartoons portraying Jesus as a beer-drinking, cigarette-smoking yobbo have sparked communal rioting in India, and have led to the burning of a Church of North India (CNI) church and Salvation Army meeting hall in the Pubjab. On Feb 20, Christians in the town of Batala took to the streets to protest the publication of a cartoon from a school textbook that portrayed Jesus raising glass of beer in one hand and holding a cigarette in the other. | |
| World Issues | The Church Of England Newspaper – February 26th 2010 |
| More than a third of graduates have claimed Jobseekers Allowance in the past year, research revealed today. A survey of 500 recent graduates by recruitment website totaljobs.com showed that only six per cent had found a graduate job, with two-thirds taking work just to pay bills. Thirty-six per cent had claimed Jobseeker’s Allowance in the last year, of which half had claimed for longer than six months. Another survey recently found nearly 150,000 graduates had delayed searching for work by undertaking further study. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel – April 6th 2010 |
| Business leaders have renewed their attack on public sector pensions. The CBI said a more affordable system was needed if the “trillion pound burden” on the tax payer was to be contained. A report claimed there was an annual unfunded public sector black hole of £10 billion, partly because staff contributions were “out of kilter” with payout levels. Public sector pension benefits were on average worth 26 per cent of salary every year, far higher than private sector norms, it was claimed. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel – April 6th 2010 |
| A Christian nurse who was moved to a desk job after refusing to remove her crucifix has lost a claim for discrimination. Shirley Chaplin, aged 54, took the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust Hospital to an employment tribunal, claiming that taking off a necklace bearing a crucifix would “violate her faith”. The trust said the rule was designed to prevent patients grabbing necklaces. | |
| Religious Persecution | The Sentinel – April 7th 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 |
| Parents who try to be their children’s friends in preference to deploying traditional parenting methods are failing in their duty, it has been claimed. Leading child psychologist and permanent Catholic deacon Rev Dr Michael Ross was responding to a survey which revealed that one in four parents avoid disciplining their children in favour of “an easy life.” | |
| Family | The Universe – March 7th 2010 |
| Paramount Pictures are to make a film based on Genesis, the first book in the Bible. According to Empire magazine, James Cameron is reportedly the first choice for director. | |
| Entertainment | The War Cry – April 10th 2010 |
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