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| Children in Staffordshire were threatened with Tasers 44 times over two years. The youngest person to be tasered was 14 with police firing the stun gun at under 18 three times in 2012 and 2013. The latest figures released by the Home Office show officers drew Tasers on children 17 times in 2012 and 27 times the following year. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel - March 11th 2015 |
| Labour has come under fire for pledging to make sex education compulsory for children as young as five if the Party wins the General Election. The shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said that the plans, backed by homosexual lobby group Stonewall, are part of a wider strategy to eradicate ‘homophobic bullying’. | |
| Education | Christian Institute - 6th February 2015 |
| Almost 700 complaints of racial abuse have been investigated by Staffordshire Police in the past year. New figures show the force has dealt with 2,669 race crimes since 2011 – with 677 crimes in 2014. The incidents make up more than 80% of all ‘hate crimes’ reported in the County. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - March 11th 2015 |
| The guidance behind schools’ regulator Ofsted’s ‘inappropriate’ questioning of ten-year-olds about lesbians has been revealed. The Daily Mail reported that inspectors are briefed to ask pupils as young as four about homosexuality, transsexualism and same-sex parents, but there is no reference to families with both a mum and a dad. | |
| Education | Christian Institute - 6th February 2015 |
| NHS leaders have been criticised for investing £13.5 million in portable wards and theatre’s instead of permanent buildings at Royal Stoke University Hospital. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - February 10th 2015 |
| Last Thursday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe approved an important report tackling intolerance towards Christians in Europe. The report introduced by Moldovan MP Valeriu Ghiletchi, which Care for Europe supported from a very early stage, called particularly for a greater focus on reasonable accommodation for religious belief in Member States. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | CARE Impact Direct - 6th February 2015 |
| After it emerged that Aberystwyth Student’s Union planned to vote on removing Bibles from student’s rooms, the university issued a statement in February stating they had no plans to remove the Bibles. | |
| Education | Evangelicals Now - April 2015 |
| Polling by Saga has found that a quarter of over 50s are planning an unusual send-off, with women almost 40 per cent more likely than men to break with formality. Many say they are planning fancy dress funerals, collage coffins and even burial at sea. The research also found that 37 per cent of the group are planning a humanist farewell while 21 per cent want some other form of non-religious funeral. | |
| Social Issues | Bible Society - 6th February 2015 |
| The BBC’s decision to merge religion with science, history and business under a new head of ‘factual’ programming has been criticized by religious leaders. They say it ‘could not have come at a worse time’ in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo atrocity. In a letter to the Daily Telegraph the leaders said: ‘From religious efforts at tackling Ebola in West Africa, to the interfaith solidarity that has so far helped prevent the horrors of France being imported to these shores, religion remains a force for change at home and abroad. Religious literacy is essential to the diversity we treasure in Britain – and a tonic to the extremism and intolerance that threaten it.’ | |
| Media | Bible Society - 6th February 2015 |
| Britain's wealthiest people gave away £2.58bn in the last twelve months, with a record number donating at least 1 per cent of their wealth to charity in the past year, according to figures released by The Sunday Times. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 20th April 2015 |
| Justin Welby has urged big firms to pay taxes in the countries where they earn the money and consider how they support society. The Archbishop agreed that tax was a moral issue. He added that misusing power accrued through wealth is ‘what the Bible calls sin’. However, the Archbishop, a former city oil executive, insisted that this did not mean that ‘business is bad’. He said it was important to ‘affirm’ the role of wealth creation. | |
| Work/Employment | Bible Society - 6th February 2015 |
| More than £1m has been raised for charities from the carrier bag charge since it was introduced six months ago. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 20th April 2015 |
| The Salvation Army had a record income of £196m in the year to March 2014, according to its annual report and accounts published this week. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 4th February 2015 |
| Doctors who provide end-of-life support oppose assisted suicide and think palliative care would suffer if the practice was introduced, a new survey has shown. A survey of members of the Association for Palliative Medicine found that 82 per cent of respondents opposed Lord Falconer’s assisted suicide Bill. More than 70 per cent of practicing doctors responding to the questionnaire said there would be an “adverse” or “very adverse” impact on the delivery of palliative care if assisted suicide was legalised. | |
| Health | Christian Institute |
| Primary school aged children are among thousands of girls under the age of consent who are being given the contraceptive implant by the NHS. Over the last five years the implants have been administered to nearly 10,000 under 16s including at least three ten-year-olds. | |
| Young People | Christian Institute - 23rd January 2015 |
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