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| Every state school in England was given a new copy of the King James Bible from the government – with a brief foreword by Education Secretary, Michael Gove, to mark the 400th anniversary of its translation last year. The ‘gift’, made around Easter 2012, was intended to help every pupil in every primary and secondary school access Britain’s cultural heritage. | |
| Education | The Plain Truth Spring-Summer 2013 |
| A recent online survey commissioned by the Church of England and carried out by ICM Survey showed that four out of five British adults believe in the power of prayer. | |
| Church | The Plain Truth Spring-Summer 2013 |
| The average length of the school run has increased by a quarter over 15 years, and fewer than half of primary-school aged children now walk to school. So children live further away from their school friends and spend less time outdoors. Adults too are becoming dissociated from their surroundings. More than two-thirds drive to work. | |
| Social Issues | Third Way June 2013 |
| A staggering proportion of us are survivors of childhood abuse – 24.1 percent of adults, according to the NSPCC. | |
| Social Issues | Third Way June 2013 |
| More than 400 council houses have stood empty for at least 100 days in the past two-and-a-half years – while around 6,500 people are on waiting lists for properties. New figures show the 428 Stoke-on-Trent homes were left empty so maintenance staff could get the properties ready to re-let. And one property, which was empty for 567 days, needed just £350.15 of repairs. The council has not revealed where the 428 houses are, or why the delays were so long. | |
| Housing | The Sentinel, June 11, 2013 |
| More than 1,000 long-term job-seekers in Stoke-on-Trent have finally found work in the past year. Most of them were on the Government’s Work Programme aimed at getting the unemployed off benefits and into work. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel, June 10, 2013 |
| Patients treated at North Staffordshire’s A&E unit can no longer be guaranteed a safe service, according to its director. Magnus Harrison has joined the heads of 17 other hospital emergency departments in the West Midlands to highlight the growing crisis facing them all. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, May 23, 2013 |
| Seventy-five people have applied to buy homes for just £1 as part of a pioneering regeneration scheme. The council project aims to transform 35 run-down properties in the Portland Street area of Cobridge. Launched last month, it is the first phase in a £3 million scheme that will see 124 long term empty homes in the Portland Street and Bond Street areas brought back into use. | |
| Housing | The Sentinel, May 17, 2013 |
| Many single Christians feel ‘isolated, invisible and alone’ in church, according to one of the first major studies into the experiences of unmarried worshippers. Researchers say the church faces a ‘time bomb’ as it focuses on family friendly activities at a time when a growing proportion of the population lives alone. The survey found that more than a third of Christians who are not married or in a relationship believe they are not treated the same as those that are part of conventional families. | |
| Church | Christianity – June 2013 |
| The government has agreed to act after the High Court outlawed a Home Office policy treating 17-year-olds held in police custody as adults – denying them protections enjoyed by those aged 16 and under. Two judges declared the policy unlawful and ordered Home Secretary Theresa May, to revise it. The ruling follows the high-profile deaths of two 17-year-olds who killed themselves after getting into trouble with the police. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel – April 26, 2013 |
| Some of Britain’s best-known charities have expressed dismay after an investigation found they were being used by offshore trusts to shelter millions of pounds from the tax authorities. A Sunday Times investigation revealed charity groups were unwittingly being named as the beneficiaries of trusts listed in the British Virgin Islands and Cook Islands to ensure the real owners avoided scrutiny over tax. Cancer Research UK, the NSPCC, the National Trust, Greenpeace and Amnesty International were among the organisations being used, the paper said. | |
| Money | The Sentinel – April 29, 2013 |
| Five million families are approaching financial “breaking point” and are relying on loans and savings to cover their food bills, research has suggested. One in five households said that their monthly incomes would not stretch to cover all of their food costs in April and they had to use some form of borrowing such as a credit card, and over draft or a loan. This would equate to five million families if the findings were projected across the UK, Which? said. | |
| Family | The Sentinel – May 6, 2013 |
| A grandmother who killed herself left a note blaming the government for her death. Stephanie Bottrill’s family said she was tortured about how she would afford the £20 extra a week for the two spare bedrooms in her home - money she owed because of the government’s spare room subsidy policy, the so-called “bedroom tax”, the Sunday People reported. Ms Brottrill, from Solihull, died in the early hours of May 4 after she was struck by a lorry on the M6 motorway, which is a short walk from her terraced house. | |
| The Elderly | The Sentinel – May 13, 2013 |
| Nurse staffing levels on many English hospital wards are dangerously unsafe, a group of senior nurses have said in an unprecedented warning. The Safe Staffing Alliance (SSA) says one nurse should look after an absolute maximum of eight patients - but often nurses have to look after more, jeopardising patient care. The alliance says the 1:8 figure is based on hard evidence and it has issued new recommendations that “under no circumstances” should staffing be allowed to fall below that level. | |
| Health | The Sentinel – May 13, 2013 |
| More people are clambering on to the housing ladder in the best start to a year for first-time buyers since 2008, figures show. First-timers were given 16,400 loans in February, up on the 15,900 in January and 17 per cent stronger than a year earlier, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said. They now receive 43 per cent of all home loans as lenders unveil innovative deals for them. ‘First-time buyers are continuing to take advantage of more favourable conditions’, said the council’s Paul Smee. | |
| Housing | Metro – 16 April 2013 |
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