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| A staggering one in four women suffers domestic violence at some point in their lives. Inspire February 2008 | |
| Social Issues | Inspire February 2008 |
| Potential young offenders will be targeted by police in a new initiative to cut youth crime, it was reported today. A scheme to give schools a full-time police presence is to be extended and police will share information on youngsters who are at risk with other agencies working with children, such as education and social services. Acpo believes identifying young people who could fall into crime early on could have a big impact on cutting youth crime. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel – 24th January 2008 |
| Kenya held elections on December 27, which resulted in rioting and scores of people shot dead. People in Kenya have told EN that they believed that the actual results showed President Kibaki’s party took just 38 seats while the opposition leader Raila Odinga’s party took 130 seats. Nevertheless, declaring different ‘official’ results, Kabaki was sworn in for a second term in office at State House. | |
| World Issues | Evangelicals Now February 2008 |
| The Office for National Statistics updated the way it assesses drinking for the first time since 1978. When applied retrospectively to 2005 data, the new method boosted drinking rates from 10.8 units to an average 14.3 units of alcohol per person per week. | |
| Food and Drink | The Sentinel – 22nd January 2008 |
| The average household debt in the UK is £8,920 (Excluding mortgages). This figure increases to £20,740 if unsecured loans are included. Each household pays approximately £3,740 interest on their total debt (this is about 9% of take-home pay) Consumers will borrow an additional £335m today Citizen Advice Bureaux will deal with 6,600 debt problems today Two-thirds of teenagers do not believe they have a good knowledge of finance One in five teenagers do not view being in debt as a bad thing. The average consumer debt for 24yr olds in 2006 was £13,351. Personal loans make up the largest part of this debt, followed by credit cards. Homebuyers under 25 owe an average of £20,290 on unsecured credit. Nearly half of young Britons aged 16-24 say their friends put pressure on them to keep spending even when they have run out of money. All statistics based on figures up to end of October 2007. | |
| Money | Direction February 2008 |
| Teenagers will be given compulsory cooking lessons at school for the first time, under government plans to ensure all pupils know how to make a healthy meal. From September every 11-14 year old in the 85 per cent of schools currently offering food technology classes will be taught practical cookery. | |
| Education | The Sentinel – 22nd January 2008 |
| There is little evidence that HM Revenue and Customs has got the tax credit system under control. High levels of error, fraud and harsh measures for receiving over payments have left some tax credit recipients wishing they had never joined the scheme, said the Commons Public Accounts Committee | |
| Money | The Sentinal, 5th February 2008 |
| Almost two thirds of Britons are risking their future wellbeing by failing to set aside money for social care in later life, a report today suggested. A survey found 64 per cent of people said they had no plans to save any cash to fund care they may need in their old age with a similar percentage expecting to rely on family and friends. | |
| Money | The Sentinel – 25th January 2008 |
| Over half the babies born to British women in 2007 were born outside of marriage, according to new figures. The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has released figures which show that marriage among Britons is now at its lowest level since records began and that a majority of babies born to British women are born out of wedlock. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelical Times February 2008 |
| The UK’s first family drug and alcohol court is due to open in London with the aim of helping parents beat addictions so they can keep their children. It will not hear criminal cases but will try to help parents kick their addictions with support from therapists and social workers. The three year pilot will cost more than 1.3 million. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Sentinel – 28th January 2008 |
| Schoolgirls in Dorset can now get the morning-after pill from their local chemist without needing to say a word. Instead they just hand over a special ‘contraception credit card’ with their details filled in on the back. The card is supposed to help girls overcome the daunting prospect of asking for emergency contraception, but inevitably is will help foster reckless attitudes to inappropriate sexual activity. | |
| Young People | Evangelical Times February 2008 |
| A top economist warned today that the UK risked falling into a full-blown recession as it entered its weakest period of growth for more than 15 years. Roger Bootle, advisor to accountants Deloitte , said he expected the UK economy to grow by two per cent this year and 1.7 per cent next year, the lowest two-year growth rate since 1992. | |
| Money | The Sentinel – 28th January 2008 |
| Britons currently spend £130 Million a year on complementary medicine and alternative health treatments such as aromatherapy, reflexology, massage, nutritional advice, shiatsu, reiki, naturopathy, yoga, homoeopathy, cranial osteopathy, posture Advice and muscle toning techniques. This figure is expected to rise to £200 million in the next few years. | |
| Health | Evangelical Times February 2008 |
| Researchers have discovered that drinking fizzy pop substantially increases the risk of men developing gout. It has long been regarded as a rich man’s disease, often linked to too much port. But experts in the U.S. and Canada followed more than 46,000 men, all aged 40 and over, with no history of the disease. During a 12-year follow-up, 755 newly-diagnosed cases of gout were identified. Men who had five or six glasses of sugary soft drink a week had a 30 per cent increased risk , but the risk was 85 per cent higher among men who consumed two or more servings of sugar sweetened soft drinks daily. | |
| Health | The Sentinel – 1st February 2008 |
| Amnesty International is asking it’s supporters to prostest to the authorities in Equatroial New Guinea at the detention of a woman in a prison cell with up to 100 men. The human rights group said that Brigida Asongsua Elo, who has not been charged or brought before a court, is sharing a cell with no privacy or toilet facilities. | |
| World Issues | The War Cry - 23rd February 2008 |
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