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| All holders of public office could be forced to swear an ‘Equality Oath’ showing their allegiance to so-called British values, a Cabinet Minister said in December. Sajid Javid, the Government’s Communities Secretary, believes those who do not accept such values will ‘struggle to play a positive role in British life’. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now - February 2017 |
| Overall charitable giving in the United Kingdom was up by 2.8 per cent and digital giving was up by 2.2 per cent last year, according to Blackbaud’s 2016 Charitable Giving Report. | |
| Money | Civil Society Media - 23rd February 2017 |
| The Local Government Association has joined calls to introduce mandatory sex ed in all schools, claiming that lack of sex education is to blame for the "shockingly high" number of sexually transmitted infections in young people, which can cause infertility later on in life. | |
| Education | Christian Concern - 17th February 2017 |
| US scientists have cautiously endorsed a highly unethical technique that can genetically modify human embryos. The technique, Crispr-cas9, would alter the human germline, and the consequences, which are as yet unknown, would be down passed to future generations...A British ethics committee already greenlighted gene editing last year, despite international criticism. | |
| Science | Christian Concern - 17th February 2017 |
| 9 in 10 UK universities are now restricting free speech in some way, according to a survey by online magazine Spiked. 64% now actively censor speech, and 31% stifle speech through excessive regulation, indicating a steady rise in censorship over the past three years, the report claims. | |
| Education | Christian Concern - 17th February 2017 |
| Doctors have created a 'brain-reading' device which allows them to communicate with patients who have 'locked-in syndrome' (CLIS), a condition that leaves people completely paralysed but aware and able to think. The new technology reads brain activity to decipher if a patient is answering 'yes' or 'no' to a question. All four patients who were tested indicated that they were "happy" with life, challenging common attitudes about what it is like to live with CLIS. | |
| Health | Christian Concern - 3rd February 2017 |
| People who say they would have aborted their children had they known they were disabled have been given £70 million in compensation from the NHS. The payments took place over the past five years and covered claims for conditions including Down’s syndrome. | |
| Health | The Christian Institute - 3rd February 2017 |
| Church of England doctrine on marriage should remain consistent with the Bible, but there should be “maximum freedom” for homosexual people within the Church, bishops have said in a new report on sexuality. | |
| Church | The Christian Institute - 3rd February 2017 |
| Doctors across the UK have been told not to call pregnant women “expectant mothers”, in case they offend transsexual people. Official guidance, issued by the British Medical Association, instructs staff to use the term “pregnant people” instead. | |
| Health | The Christian Institute - 3rd February 2017 |
| The legalisation of assisted suicide could save more than $100 million per year for the Canadian health care system, an alarming study has claimed. | |
| World Issues | The Christian Institute - 27th January 2017 |
| Men can join the Girl Guides as leaders for the first time in its 107 year history – if they feel they have been born in the ‘wrong’ body. | |
| Social Issues | The Christian Institute - 27th January 2017 |
| This week, a report from the Both Lives Matter movement, of which CARE is a founding member, was published providing a cautious estimate that 100,000 people are alive in the Province today due to Northern Ireland’s abortion laws. | |
| The Law | CARE Impact Direct - 20th January 2017 |
| Experts are warning that one in 10 adults in the UK will be at risk of developing diabetes by 2035. Public Health England say the number of people with the disease could top five million. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 25th October 2016 |
| Earnings have risen fastest among the lowest paid owing to higher minimum wage levels. A 6.2 percent rise meant pay inequality narrowed between April 2015 and early April 2016. | |
| Money | The Sentinel - 27th October 2016 |
| Hundreds of care homes are banning relatives from visiting elderly residents over complaints about quality of care. The care homes said they had investigated the issues raised. | |
| The Elderly | The Sentinel - 3rd November 2016 |
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