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| A study on American teenagers by the University of California, Los Angeles, has revealed that teenagers place less importance on owning expensive items than a decade ago. It also shows that a higher proportion of teenagers believe it is important to have a job that is ‘worthwhile to society.’ The report suggests that these changes have been influenced by the growing economic recession. | |
| Young People | Youthwork, January 2014 |
| People of faith are among the most likely to adopt or foster, but are being held back by adoption ‘myths’, according to new research carried out on behalf of the Department for Education. Research found that more than half of those in England who say they are ‘certain’ or ‘very likely’ to adopt a child describe themselves as ‘actively practising a religion’. However, many religious people don’t come forward to adopt because of myths about who can adopt, claim national adoption information service, First4Adoption and the church-based campaign to promote adoption and fostering, Home for Good. The two organisations say that actively religious people, while being more likely to consider adopting or fostering, conversely often wrongly believe that their faith will prevent them being approved. | |
| Social Issues | Christianity, January 2014 |
| Ministers have taken legal advice to ensure measures to stop EU migrants claiming out-of-work benefits for their first three months in the UK cannot be overturned in the courts. It comes after the European Commission said it was ‘too early to say’ if they were compliant with free movement rules. David Cameron told MPs the new measures, being rushed through Parliament, will ensure that the three-month wait is in place by the time access restrictions on Romanian and Bulgarian workers are lifted on January 1. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, December 19, 2013 |
| People living in parts of Leeds, Manchester and Preston have the highest average level of personal loan debt per head in Britain. Data compiled voluntarily by the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) and the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) mapped out how people and businesses across the country rely on more than £1 trillion worth of lending. The figures, which for the first time break lending down to cover more than 9,000 postcodes, also show that London accounts for around one quarter of the total value of the country’s outstanding mortgage debt. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, December 18, 2013 |
| A furious row has broken out at the heart of the coalition Government over the right of European Union nationals to work in the UK, with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg branding proposals floated in a leaked Home Office document ‘illegal and undeliverable’. Reports say Home Secretary Theresa May wants to introduce a cap on EU migration with professionals and high-skilled migrants from wealthy countries allowed in only if they had a job offer and lower-skilled workers permitted to settle only if they were employed in posts where there was an identified shortage. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel, December 17, 2013 |
| More than £12 million in fines levied on City rate-riggers will be shared by 24 military charities and good causes. The latest allocation of funds from the Libor fines pot will be used to fund projects including housing and mental health support schemes for veterans. Yesterday’s announcement by Chancellor George Osborne means the £35 million fund has been used to support 96 armed forces charities and good causes. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, December 16, 2013 |
| Families would only be able to claim benefits for two children under plans put forward by a member of David Cameron’s policy board aimed at cutting millions of pounds off the welfare bill. The radical proposals set out by Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi would limit child benefit and child tax credits to families’ first two children. He said they would “save billions and help the next generation think more carefully about their relationship with the welfare state”. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, December 16, 2013 |
| Twenty-five primary schools had national curriculum test results wiped out this year due to cheating or mistakes in administering the papers, official figures show. In some cases, schools saw their reading and maths scores annulled for “maladministration”. The disclosure comes as new figures show hundreds of primary schools in England are failing to give pupils a decent education on reading, writing and arithmetic. | |
| Education | The Sentinel, December 13, 2013 |
| The quality of care given to women during pregnancy and birth is “just not good enough” in too many cases, the chief inspector of hospitals has said. Professor Sir Mike Richards said some women had “truly shocking” experiences that should be the most joyous in a woman’s life. He was speaking as new figures showed a quarter of women are left alone during labour and birth when they are feeling anxious, up on 22 per cent in 2010. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) poll of more than 23,000 women across England also felt their concerns during labour and birth were not being taken seriously. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, December 13, 2013 |
| A couple who want to marry in a Church of Scientology chapel are planning their wedding after winning a “human rights” fight in the UK’s highest court. Scientologists Louisa Hodkin and Alessandro Calcioli, both 25 and from East Grinstead, West Sussex, had put the ceremony on hold after a High Court judge said services run by Scientologists were not “acts of worship”. But the Supreme Court yesterday ruled the Scientology church was a “place of meeting for religious worship”. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Sentinel, December 12, 2013 |
| Lloyds Banking Group has been fined a record £28 million over incentive schemes that rewarded staff with “champagne bonuses” and put advisors under pressure to hit sales targets or face demotion. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it was the highest penalty ever imposed against a UK retail banking operation and came after it uncovered “serious failings” in bonus schemes within Lloyds TSB, Halifax and Bank of Scotland (BoS) that saw frontline staff pick up windfalls even when the products were mis-sold to customers. The investigation focused on sales of investment products, such as stocks and shares, individual savings accounts (Isas), and insurance protection products between January 2010 and March 2012. More than one million of the products were sold to over 690,000 customers. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, December 12, 2013 |
| Some energy companies have been accused of “getting away with green murder” for failing to pass on savings from a Government shake-up of levies. Just two of the “big six” providers – British Gas and Scottish and Southern Energy – have announced that they will pass on the savings, worth around £50 to all customers, including those on fixed-price contracts….EDF Energy and E.On both said they took the Government’s cuts to green levies into account when announcing smaller-than-expected price rises. But both said that existing customers on fixed-price contracts will not benefit from the saving, claiming that they already benefit from a discounted rate. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, December 11, 2013 |
| While an amazing 88% of American homes own a Bible, more and more are switching to the internet, Smartphones and iPads to read God’s word, according to a sweeping new survey of Bible use, it was reported in September. In their latest survey of Bible use, the American Bible Society finds that 41% of Americans used the internet to read the Bible on a computer. Some 29% said they searched Bible verses on a Smartphone, and 17% said they read an electronic version of the Bible on a Kindle or iPad. | |
| Media | Evangelicals Now, October 2013 |
| Addressing a service in the Hotel Quinta Real in Monterrey, Mexico, in August, the Archbishop of Canterbury said: ‘The church is coming perilously close to plunging into a ravine of intolerance.’ His comments warned the worldwide Anglican church that they were tottering on the brink of complete discrimination amid bitter disputes between liberals and traditionalists. He said the church had to steer a course between, on one hand, compromising so much that it abandoned its ‘core beliefs’ and, on the other, becoming so intolerant that it fractured completely. | |
| Church | Evangelicals Now, October 2013 |
| The chief minister of an Indian state in August wrote to the country’s prime minister urging that Christian dalits be given the same rights as their Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist counterparts after decades of discrimination. J. Jayalalitha of Tamil Nadu state sent an official letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on August 9 asking him to discuss the matter in Parliament. | |
| World Issues | Evangelicals Now, October 2013 |
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