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  • 28 Mar 2011
    Government social services review: value or 'burden'?

    A UK government review of local authority duties has raised further fears about the future of social services, says Savi Hensman/ Yet, against a background of harsh spending cuts, this is also an opportunity for people and civil society organisations - including churches and faith bodies - to declare whether they believe that children and adults should be able to get the support they need.

  • 2 Oct 2010
    Church-backed inquiry planned on African and Caribbean families in Britain

    An inquiry into the challenges and opportunities of black families is set to shed new light on assumptions about race relations in Britain.

  • 6 May 2010
    In praise of political activists and families

    As polling gets under way and the exhausted leadership candidates return to their constituencies and their families, it is a good time to reflect on political activists and on families.

  • 2 Jan 2008
    Pope says that making peace is humanity's common calling in 2008

    Pope Benedict XVI, leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, says that in troubled times all people are "called to build relationships of solidarity and cooperation among themselves, as befits members of the one human family."