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| The government announced at the end of March that children from age 11 should be taught about sexual consent. The lessons are planned for mixed and single-sex state and independent schools in every part of England. The plans are being drawn up by the Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) Association, an organisation set up in 2006 to oversee PSHE teaching. PSHE will not be made a compulsory subject, according to Conservative plans. The introduction to the draft document, which is due to be launched this year, says young people should be taught about consent before they are sexually active. This, according to the document, does not equate to encouraging underage sexual activity, but in may protect children from exploitation and abuse. | |
| Education | Evangelicals Now - May 2015 |
| Statistics suggest that a quarter of young people in the UK have no strong religions persuasion. The phrase ‘NONES’ has been coined in recent years to describe this group, a group marked by a general sense of apathy towards all thing religious, faith and God. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Youthwork - April 2015 |
| The Church of England is being asked to debate plans to introduce a ceremony akin to a baptism to mark the new identities of Christians who undergo so called gender transition. The Rev Chris Newlands, the vicar of Lancaster Priory, proposed the motion to the General Synod, after he was approached by a person seeking to be “re-baptised” in his new identity. The motion, which was passed by Blackburn Diocese last month, could be debated at a future General Synod meeting. | |
| Church | Christian Concern - 23rd May 2015 |
| Research conducted by ‘Dying Matters’ has found that most of the British public would not consider it a top priority to have their spiritual needs catered for when facing the end of their lives. In a poll, commissioned by ComRes, participants were asked to consider which factor from a list of six would be the most important to them in ensuring that they had a 'good death.' Having religious and spiritual needs met ranked at the bottom, with only 5 per cent describing this as a top priority. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Concern - 23rd May 2015 |
| The next Free Church of Scotland Moderator, David Robertson has accused the British Humanist Association of “sheer hypocrisy” after it emerged that they would be distributing books promoting atheism to every secondary school in Scotland. The distribution of ‘The Young Atheists Handbook: Lessons for Living a Good Life without God’ comes just a few months after the Humanist Society of Scotland secured a ban on a Christian book from Scottish primary schools. | |
| Education | Christian Concern - 23rd May 2015 |
| Students at a Welsh university have voted to remove thousands of Bibles from halls of residence, in a move being described as “illiberal and intolerant”. A motion passed at an Aberystwyth University Students’ Union meeting, called for an end to the tradition of having Gideon Bibles in students’ bedrooms, branding it “inappropriate in a multicultural university”. | |
| Education | The Christian Institute - 22nd May 2015 |
| Almost a quarter of children's centres across the UK have been forced to close or merge as a result of government funding cuts over the past five years, according to children's charity Barnardo's. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 22nd May 2015 |
| Only 15 per cent of Irish Anglicans attend church on Sundays – and unless the situation improves, ‘we may as well close the doors now’ the leader of the Church of Ireland has said. Speaking at the General Synod in Armagh, after a survey showed that only 58,000 out of the claimed membership of 378,000 actually attend services, Archbishop Richard Clarke said: ‘The statistics present the scale of the missional challenge ahead of us as a Church’. | |
| Church | Bible Society - 15th May 2015 |
| The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that faith leaders seem desperate to hide behind ‘bland’ and ‘anaemic’ statements about what they have in common rather than facing up to the ‘profound differences’ between them. He also warned that the pretence that mainstream religions agree on everything is simply ‘dishonest’ and risks leaving them impotent to halt the spread of extremism. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society - 8th May 2015 |
| The UK's top 400 companies gave a total of £658m to charity in the last two years, an increase of 9.9 per cent from 2013, according to a new report by the Directory of Social Change. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 29th April 2015 |
| Just one third of people said they were comfortable with donating money online, with fewer happy to donate by mobile devices, according to a survey by Zurich about the importance of protecting data. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 30th April 2015 |
| Parents are splashing out more than £40 million on their children’s school uniform every year. New research by The Children’s Society has found parents in Stoke-on-Trent are spending £10 million on uniform, bags, coats and sports equipment. And a further £33 million is forked out in the rest of Staffordshire. It means each family is spending an average of £251 for each child at a primary school and £316 for a high school pupil. | |
| Education | The Sentinel - 4th March 2015 |
| More than one million food vouchers issued were issued by the Trussell Trust over the past year, according to figures released this week. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 23rd April 2015 |
| The leader of the Liberal Democrats told Nick Ferrari, on Classic FM, that he has never been a firm atheist. He said: ‘I'm actually not and never have been a rigid atheist. I was asked once, do I know whether God exists or not, and I'm actually quite agnostic. I don't know.’ Nick Clegg’s wife is a practising Catholic and his children are being raised in the faith. | |
| What famous people say | Bible Society - 1st May 2015 |
| This month the Office for National Statistics revealed that unemployment rates in the UK have fallen by 58,000 to an estimated 1.91 million. Alarmingly however, the rate of unemployment among young people aged 16-24 has risen by 30,000 to a staggering 764,000. | |
| Work/Employment | Youthwork - March 2015 |
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