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| A £100million campaign to tackle binge-drinking has been launched. It comes as a YouGov survey found almost one in four young people were ashamed of their appearance while drunk in the past twelve months, a quarter have not known how they got home, and nearly a third blacked out. The initiative urges 18 to 24-year olds to evaluate their drinking to change the social acceptability of drunkenness. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel- 1 September 2009 |
| Drinkers in England consumed an average eight alcoholic drinks every day on their summer holidays this year, a Government-backed survey has found. The poll of more than 3,500 people, for Know Your Limits Campaign, found that people drank 80 drinks over one holiday, with the average holiday lasting 10 days. This is the equivalent of 80 pints of beer (or 227 units of alcohol), or 80 large glasses of wine (240 units). | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel- 28 August 2009 |
| A spate of assisted suicides shows that Britain is entering the “age of convenience”, the Archbishop of Westminster has said. Archbishop Vincent Nichols defined the “age of convenience” as the pursuit of what we want despite its cost and impact on others. He argued the loss of faith was giving rise to new moral and social dangers. He said: “The consequences of this attitude lie at the root of the weakening of social structures, including the decline of the family as the core unit and the increasing intolerance of non-materialist, philosophical or ethical views”. | |
| Social Issues | Salvationist- July 2009 |
| Parents are not to blame for the rise in bad behaviour among teenagers, research suggests. There is no evidence that parenting is worse today than it was twenty years ago, according to a study by the Nuffield Foundation. Today’s parents are more likely to know where their teenage children are and what they are doing – in 2006 85% of parents regularly asked their child where they were going. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel- 31 July 2009 |
| People with less money are more likely to play the National Lottery but less likely to benefit from lottery-funded projects, according to new research by theology think-tank Theos. Using a combination of polling undertaken by ComRes and analysis of existing research, Theos found that people in Britain’s lower socio-economic groups play lottery scratchcard and draw games more than those who have more money, but it says, ‘insufficient funding is being invested back into Britain’s deprived communities. | |
| Social Issues | The War Cry- August 2009 |
| An Irish bishop has said there should be no official status given to any relationship other than that of heterosexual marriage. Bishop Christopher Jones said he accepted that provision must be made for unmarried couples who formed long-term dependent relationships, but none of these relationships should get the same status as heterosexual marriage. | |
| Social Issues | The Universe- August 2009 |
| Complaints about a council rose last year as thousands of residents raised concerns about the quality of services. Stoke-on-Trent City Council received a total of 2,551 complaints during 2008/09 – up fifty on the previous year. The authority has also revealed the number of complaints from service-users fell by 6% to 1,095. a report to scrutiny committee members showed the number of comments from residents about the council’s operations jumped by almost 29%. The report said more than half of the complaints were either upheld or partially upheld, and that the authority paid out £3,635 to settle four disputes. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel- 21 July 2009 |
| More than 80% of Britons favour a cap on immigration, the Government’s own survey has revealed. Despite ministers ruling out a cap, a Home Office poll of attitudes towards people coming to the UK found overwhelming support for a strict limit on immigrant numbers. A total of 81% of those asked by pollsters favoured, while only 13% said they opposed one. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel- 23 July 2009 |
| Claims that immigrants are given priority access to social housing were today dismissed as a myth by a study for the Equality and Human Rights Commission. It found that only 1.8% of social tenants had moved to the UK within the past five years, while 87.8% were UK-born and a tenth of foreigners who had lived in Britain for five years. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel- 7 July 2009 |
| A leading adoption agency has branded people who have concerns about gay adoption as “retarded homophobes”. The slur appeared in the current edition of the publicly-funded British Association of Adopters and Fosterers (BAAF) monthly newspaper, Be My Parent. It also appeared in the online edition. The offending article, which was written by a gay adopter stated: “Children need good parents much more than retarded homophobes need an excuse to whinge, so don’t let your worries about society’s reaction hinder your desire to give a child a loving, caring home.” The newspaper has already been distributed and the BAAF are considering what to do with the remaining copies. The article has been removed form the organisation’s website. However, in an astonishing admission, the BAAF’s Esther Freeman said: “We regret the use of the phrase but stand by the sentiment.” | |
| Social Issues | The Universe- May 2009 |
| The level of drunkenness in young people could fall if adults took a more disciplined attitude to alcohol, the Bishop of Chelmsford has warned. The bishop, the Rt Rev John Gladwin, said at question time in the House of Lords that “there is some evidence to suggest that the worst problems of alcohol consumption are among the adult middle classes." He added: “We could help young people by having a slightly more disciplined approach to alcohol in the adult community”. | |
| Social Issues | The Church of England– April 2009 |
| ID cards could be fitted with chip and pin technology to help combat identity fraud, it was revealed today. The head of the government agency tasked with producing the cards said there were no "technical obstacles" to adding chips to the cards and handing out pin numbers. Adding chips might allow the cards to be used in ATM machines in the future. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel- 7 April 2009 |
| Campaigners renewed calls for £3 billion invested from Chancellor Alistair Darling’s budget to end child poverty. Research put Britain near the bottom of a league table of European youngsters well being because of high numbers of young people in workless families and poor local environments. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel- 21 April 2009 |
| Blind men and women led every part of a service to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille. Torch Trust, the UK-based Christian organisation that works with blind and partially sighted people, marked the bicentenary by holding the first ever all-Braille church service, at St Martin’s-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square. Also involved were the RNIB the association of Blind Catholics, the Guild of Church Braillists and Churches Together in England. | |
| Social Issues | Christianity - May 2009 |
| Christian campaign groups have welcomed the announcement that Cadbury’s Dairy Milk is to receive fair-trade certification by late summer. Cadbury’s is to increase the amount of fair-trade cocoa that it sources from Ghana to about 15,000 tonnes per year. This commitment means that Cadbury's will pay a guaranteed minimum price for cocoa, even if that is higher than the open market price. Campaign group Stop The Traffic has being calling on chocolate manufacturers for two years to take responsibility for the chocolate they sell. The group claims that thousands of children are trafficked onto cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast and across West Africa, and that little progress has been made to remove exploitative child labour from the chocolate supply chain. | |
| Social Issues | Christianity - May 2009 |
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