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| The Church of England yesterday gave a green light to wedding-style services for couples in civil partnerships despite its official opposition to same-sex marriage. A report from the Church's doctrine watchdog urged priests to devise "pastoral accommodations" for homosexual couples" and to be "flexible". It said the aim was to enable partners to have a "closer approximation" to marriage. The senior bishop who drafted the guidelines for priests insisted they did not amount to a policy rethink and that an official ban on blessing civil partnerships remained in place. But he said it was clear there was a need for committed same-sex couples to be given "compassionate attention" from the Church. Liberal priests said it amounted to the first official endorsement of the dedication and thanksgiving services they already conduct for homosexual couples. | |
| Church | Daily Telegraph April 10 2013 |
| The trend for having children later in life means one million parents will still be supporting their offspring after they retire, according to research. Whereas 20 years ago it was unusual to have children after the age of 40, the study concluded that the modern "cut-off ages for men and women becoming parents were 49 and 43 respectively. But embarking on parenthood later means many people face working longer or dipping into their pension to support their children. The study also suggests that the average retirement savings currently fall more than £2,000 short of the average annual cost of raising a child. | |
| Family | Daily Telegraph April 10 2013 |
| "Inherent conservatism" and the "generational" views of some chairmen are holding back talented women from being appointed into board roles, a leading head-hunter has claimed on the day an official report shows progress on diversity at the top has stalled. Katushka Giltsoff, a head-hunter at executive search firm the Miles Partnership, told The Daily Telegraph there were plenty of suitable, qualified women ready to take up board posts in the UK, but the outdated views of some chairmen were standing in their way. A new report by Cranfield School of Management, the Government's official monitor of the number of women on listed boards, will today reveal that the drive to increase female board representation has lost momentum. Over the past six months, the number of FTSE 100 board appointments going to women has dropped from 44pc to 26pc. In the FTSE 250, the figure has fallen from 36pc to 29pc, the report shows. Overall, the number of women on Britain's biggest 100 boards has risen over the past year, from 15pc to 17.3pc, but there are just 18 women FTSE 100 executive directors compared with 292 men, suggesting the flow of women along the "executive pipeline" is easing. | |
| Work/Employment | Daily Telegraph April 10 2013 |
| Should packets of crisps carry a health warning? You might scoff at the suggestion, but it comes as evidence emerges to show the snack is bad news - fuelling not just the obesity and heart disease epidemics, but linked to developmental problems in unborn babies, hyperactivity in children and potentially cancer in adults. The risks would not be so critical were it not for the alarming extent to which Britain's crisp-munching habit has grown. Last week a YouGov poll found that a third of British children eat crisps every day. The other two thirds of UK children eat them several times a week. In fact, Britons polish off six billion packets a year, the equivalent of one ton of crisps every three minutes or almost 100 packets per person. Snacking on a packet a day — as so many of Britain's children now do — can add up to the equivalent of drinking almost five litres of cooking oil per year to their diet. That is not to mention fat, sugar and salt the packs contain. | |
| Food and Drink | Daily Mail April 9 2013 |
| Workers send and receive 10,000 emails a year - but one in five never puts pen to paper, a study has found. More than 10 per cent look at a screen all day, and one in four isn't sure how they worked before email. The Warwick Business School study for energy firm npower shows how much we rely on new technology. The average worker sends and receives 40 emails a day, and for one in 12, the figure is more than 100. | |
| Work/Employment | Daily Mail April 9 2013 |
| Soaring numbers of elderly people are being forced to rely on handouts from friends and family to stay in care homes near their loved ones. Councils facing squeezed budgets are increasingly looking to move residents to cheaper homes, which often means they are passed 'like parcels' to alternatives hundreds of miles away. A third of those who are entitled to state help with care home fees - perhaps because they have exhausted their life savings on such bills - are being forced to meet spiralling costs themselves, charity Age UK said. If they fail to top up their council funding, care home residents can be moved to cheaper homes - potentially in a different local authority - where their fees can be paid by the council in full. Elderly people living in England qualify to have all their care home fees covered by their local authority when their assets drop below £14,250, and if their needs are severe enough. According to the figures, 56,000 elderly people - nearly a third of those entitled to have their care home fees paid in full last year - were forced to turn to relatives for help with topping up care home bills - a 4 per cent jump on the previous year. | |
| The Elderly | Daily Mail April 9 2013 |
| More than five million families face having their heating cut off after falling behind with energy bills, an alarming report warns today. The number of households struggling to pay 'sky-high' bills has jumped by around a million in the last year, the research found. On average, indebted families owe £123 to their energy supplier. The report pointed to crippling gas and electricity costs as the reason for the increase, with the typical bill an 'eye-watering' £1,353 a year. | |
| Money | Daily Mail April 9 2013 |
| Cutting benefits for social tenants with spare rooms is “common sense”, Tory chairman Grant Shapps said as he hit back against a major welfare squeeze. Churches, charities and campaign groups joined Labour in an assault of the biggest shake-up of the system of state help for 60 years, which starts to take effect today. But Mr Shapps insisted wide-ranging reforms were vital to tackle the deficit, would encourage people off benefits and into work, and help ease housing shortages. The under-occupancy penalty, dubbed a “bedroom tax” by opponents and a “spare-room subsidy” by ministers, has become the focus for protestors. From tomorrow around 660,000 families will lose an average £14 housing benefit a week in a move ministers hope will save £500 million a year. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, April 1, 2013 |
| A recent church salary survey, sponsored by Stewardship, has revealed that one in four church employees struggles with debt. Twenty four per cent of those who responded stated that they currently have personal debts exceeding the equivalent of one month’s salary, and one in eight felt that their financial situation was affecting their ministry role. | |
| Church | Youthwork, April 2013 |
| A police chaplain says he was removed from his post because he disagreed with gay marriage on his personal internet blog, it was reported on March 1. The Rev. Ross, a retired Church of Scotland minister, said: ‘Just before the summer, a particular senior officer read my personal blog and objected to my support for traditional marriage as, it was claimed, it went against the force’s equality and diversity policies. I was summoned to a meeting, which resulted in my services being dispensed with. This, I would emphasise, is before any legislation has been placed on the statute book’. | |
| Religious Persecution | Evangelicals Now, April 2013 |
| Politicians are too frightened to admit family breakdown is causing major damage, a senior family lawyer said in late February. Baroness Deech said that, when it comes to the absence of fathers in families, there is ‘a conspiracy of silence. Politicians fear to address it, for they themselves or their constituents may be implicated’. The shadow public health minister Diane Abbott has said that family breakdown causes society’s biggest health issues. | |
| Family | Evangelicals Now, April 2013 |
| Failing NHS bosses will be put on a blacklist to ensure that they can no longer work in the health service, said Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. He announced plans to introduce a ‘national barring list’ for managers who let their patients and the NHS down. Mr Hunt also said that a new Chief Inspector of Hospitals would be able to name and shame poorly performing trusts. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, March 27, 2013 |
| David Cameron has set out a series of new measures designed to make it tougher for immigrants to claim benefits and use public services like the NHS. The Prime Minister warned those coming to Britain that they cannot expect ‘something for nothing’. From next year, arrivals from the European Union will be stripped of jobseekers’ benefits after six months unless they can prove that they have been actively looking for a job and stand a ‘genuine chance’ of finding one. New guidance will create a ‘local residence test’ to give local people priority in the waiting list for social housing and ensure that migrants become eligible only after they have been in the country for two years. Mr Cameron said the Government will also target illegal immigration and the Government is working with the financial services industry to stop them from obtaining credit cards, loans and bank accounts. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel, March 26, 2013 |
| The head of the Church of England has said some gay couples have loving and monogamous relationships of ‘stunning quality’ – and he believes a woman will one day be made an archbishop. The Most Reverend Justin Welby said he backed traditional Church teaching on homosexuality but said: “You see gay relationships that are just stunning in the quality of the relationship.” | |
| Crime | The Sentinel, March 22, 2013 |
| Police failings identified in the Jimmy Savile sex abuse case could happen again, the chief constable of Greater Manchester Police has warned. Sir Peter Fahy said it was difficult to achieve ‘consistent national standards’ with 43 forces in England and Wales. It comes after a report from the police watchdog found officers mishandled complaints and missed opportunities to apprehend the late DJ. | |
| Media | The Sentinel, March 13, 2013 |
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