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| A survey of 52 of Britain's 100 most visited attractions by charity Vitalise found 63% were not fully wheelchair-accessible. It also found that many did not train staff in disability awareness. | |
| Social Issues | BBC News - 16th August 2014 |
| Parents worry their children will not make friends when they start at school for the first time, says the charity Action for Children. In a survey of more than 2,200 British parents, 33% said their main worry was their child would not make friends. This compares with 11% who said their main concern was that their children would struggle with their school work. And one in ten said they were worried about their child not asking for help when they needed it. | |
| Family | BBC News - 16th August 2014 |
| The number of people working in charities went up by 25,000 in accounts and annual returns filed in the year to June 2014 with the Charity Commission. | |
| Work/Employment | Civil Society News - 15th August 2014 |
| Hundreds of thousands of children are having to split their time between parents in different homes, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have shown. The ONS said it is “increasingly likely that dependent children will be sharing their time between two different parental addresses” because of an increase in cohabitation and divorce. Analysing the recent census for England and Wales, the ONS found 3.2 per cent of the 12.1 million dependent children had a second address belonging to another parent or guardian in 2011. | |
| Family | The Christian Institute - 8th August 2014 |
| The UK's first social impact bond has succeeded in reducing reoffending among offenders released from Peterborough Prison, according to results released today by the Ministry of Justice. | |
| Crime | Civil Society News - 7th August 2014 |
| Westminster City Council has asked London Zoo for a full report following concerns over animal welfare at parties known as "Zoo Lates", while a petition against the events has been signed by over 69,000 people. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 6th August 2014 |
| The income of UK charity shops increased by 2.2 per cent in real terms in the first quarter of 2014, compared to the same quarter the previous year, according to new figures released by the Charity Retail Association. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 5th August 2014 |
| Race for Life has topped a list of the 20 highest earning mass participation events, raising £51m for Cancer Research UK. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 5th August 2014 |
| Barts Charity, the country's third largest NHS charity, has become the first to be granted independence from the regulation of the Health Secretary, under new rules approved last year. | |
| Health | Civil Society News - 4th August 2014 |
| Charity investment rose in value by just over 10 per cent in the last 12 months, and by 2.8 per cent in the first half of 2014, according to figures released by market analysts State Street. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 4th August 2014 |
| Cancer Research UK increased its income by £53m in the year to March 2014, a rise of 10 per cent on the previous year, according to its annual report and accounts filed last month. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 4th August 2014 |
| David Cameron has vowed to examine licences for the sale of arms to Russia after claims they breached a ban. It comes after MPs warned export licences for the sale of arms, including components for anti-aircraft guns, remained in place despite fears Moscow was arming rebels in Ukraine. Downing Street said the UK had not sold arms to Russia’s armed forces since March. The Prime Minister, who has criticised other EU countries’ deals with Moscow, said he was confident that was still so but the claims would be examined in detail. | |
| Disasters/War | The Sentinel, July 24, 2014 |
| Twice as many young people are now volunteering compared to 10 years ago, according to new research. A third of young people now volunteer for good causes – the figure is nearly double that of a decade ago and the young are now the most likely to give up their time. The poll, published by research consultancy nfpSynergy, also reveals that volunteering is up 5% since January last year, meaning 1 in 4 people are now volunteers. The research, taken from a nationally representative survey of 1000 Britons, shows that 34% of 16-24 year olds volunteer, double the 18% recorded in 2003. They are now the most likely age group to volunteer, consistently polling the highest figures after a dramatic three-year rise took them above the over 65s. | |
| Work/Employment | Inspire, April/May 2014 |
| Often the medical community overlooks abortion as a risk factor in a woman’s physical and emotional health. One study in Finland showed that, in comparison with women in the same study who carried children to term, women who aborted were six times more likely to take their own lives through suicide. | |
| Social Issues | Families First, March/April 2014 |
| Doctors should carry out abortions even if it goes against their conscience, the Polish prime minister said in mid-June. Prime Minister Donald Tusk made the intervention after a Roman Catholic doctor refused to perform an abortion, saying: ‘Regardless of what his conscience is telling him, [a doctor] must carry out the law’. In Poland, abortion is allowed up to the 25th week of pregnancy in cases where the mother’s life is at risk, the unborn baby is seriously disabled or was conceived by rape or incest. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, August 2014 |
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