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| The NSPCC service delivered 3,135 counselling sessions on exam stress in 2016/17 – a rise of eleven percent over the past two years. More than a fifth of these took place in May as pupils faced upcoming exams. The most likely age group to receive counselling were 12-15 year olds but this year saw the biggest rise – up 21 percent on 2015/16 – among 16-18 year olds. Young people consistently told Childline counsellors that exam stress contributes to depression, anxiety, panic attacks, excessive crying, low self-esteem, self-harming and suicidal thoughts. | |
| Young People | Youth and Children’s Work - June 2017 |
| 13% of young people aged 11-18 are active followers of Jesus. 55% of young people feel comfortable when talked to about Jesus. Having had a conversation about Jesus, 16% of 11-18’s want to know more. | |
| Young People | Youth and Children’s Work - June 2017 and (Perceptions of Jesus, Christians and Evangelism among 11-18 year olds, by ComRes) |
| 72% of young people go the internet daily. 59% of young people said that family was the number one thing that made them feel good about themselves. | |
| Young People | Youth and Children’s Work - June 2017 and (Youth for Christ’s gen Z research) |
| At the time of writing 16 children and teenagers have been killed in knife attacks across the UK since the start of 2017. If the current rate of death continues, the numbers for 2017 will surpass killings last year. In 2016, knife crime went up by 24 percent in London with figures showing three people were killed or seriously injured in stabbings on the streets of the capital every day. The statistics from the Metropolitan Police showed 60 people were stabbed to death with a further 1,159 sustaining serious injuries. Meanwhile, data from 32 police forces show that 2,579 were seized at primary and secondary schools in England and Wales between April 2016 and the beginning of 2017. | |
| Crime | Youth and Children’s Work - June 2017 |
| Childline provided 4,063 counselling sessions about loneliness in 2016/17 and 73 percent of these counselling sessions were with girls. | |
| Young People | Youth and Children’s Work - June 2017 |
| Minimum unit pricing for alcohol is set to be rolled out across the UK if an experiment in Scotland is a success. Alcohol across the border will be priced at 50p a unit. That would take two litres of five per cent strength cider to £5 – at present, such booze is available for less than £2.50. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Sentinel - April 6 2017 |
| New legislation will mean private hire drivers could face fines or lose their taxi licenses if they discriminate against the disabled. From this Thursday, taxi and private hire vehicles will be obliged by law to transport wheelchair users in their wheelchair, provide passengers in wheelchairs with appropriate assistance, and charge wheelchairs users the same as non-wheelchair users. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel - April 3 2017 |
| British actress Emma Thompson says she never moved to Los Angeles because she felt she was deemed ‘too fat’ when she visited. She also condemned the pressure on actresses to be thin. | |
| What famous people say | The Sentinel - March 30, 2017 |
| Emergency patients had the worst winter on record for being admitted to NHS hospitals in England – with nearly 200,000 waiting at least four hours. Figures from the health service showed a near five-fold increase in the number of A&E patients suffering admission delays over the last five years. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - April 14 2017 |
| Socially conservative organisations, religious groups and even churches should be labelled as ‘hate groups’, according to a new liberal coalition in the USA in April. The Eliminate Hate Campaign (EHC) aims to pressure the media to refer to the US organisations which back traditional family values as ‘hate groups’, and has compiled a list of 52 it wishes to target and undermine. | |
| World Issues | Evangelicals Now - June 2017 (World News. The Christian Institute.) |
| Morocco’s High Religious Committee decreed earlier this year that individuals who leave Islam should not face the death penalty for apostasy. This astounding ruling from a body charged with issuing ‘fatwas’ (an authoritative, religious or juridical ruling), reverses the classical Shari’s legislation that has stood since medieval times. | |
| World Issues | Evangelicals Now - June 2017 (World News. Barnabas Fund.) |
| An employment tribunal ‘said people should not express their own beliefs without it being first being raised as a question by someone else’, during a hearing on 30th March. Judge Martin Kurrein made the comments during the hearing of Sarah Kuteh, a Christian nurse dismissed by the NHS after she spoke to patients about her faith, and occasionally offered prayer. | |
| Work/Employment | Evangelicals Now - May 2017 |
| Religion has become the butt of workplace jokes as sexism has become unacceptable, a survey by ComRes has found. According to the study, up to one million workers may have faced harassment, discrimination or bullying because of their faith. The authors suggested that this was often not considered serious to report, with respondents made to feel uncomfortable by colleague’s jokes about their faith. | |
| Work/Employment | Evangelicals Now - May 2017 |
| Care for the Family and Hope launched a report on 31st March that gives fresh insight into encouraging Christian parents to nurture their children’s faith at home. The research revealed that, despite 95% of parents acknowledging it was largely their responsibility to teach their children Christianity, 92% admitted they could do more. Less than three quarters of parents said they shared Bible stories with their children, and only 27% found it helpful talking about faith with them. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals Now - May 2017 |
| In an article for The Hour magazine, Lord Shinkwin warned that the number of disabled babies being aborted increased by 68% between 2005 and 2015. And he highlighted that 90% of babies born with Down’s Syndrome are killed in the womb. In Britain, abortions take place before 24 weeks, but disabled children can be aborted up to birth. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now - May 2017 |
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