by Agency Reporter | Jan 30, 2024 | Briefing
EDUCATION and social mobility experts at the Sutton Trust have warned of a major deterioration in the education of disadvantaged young children. The Trust says that the role of the early years sector is increasingly moving towards childcare at the expense of providing...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 30, 2024 | Briefing
ON Friday 26 January, Christians, including members of the clergy, held a vigil outside the headquarters of BMS World Mission (a leading Baptist organisation) in Didcot, Oxfordshire – praying for the charity to drop Barclays as its bank. The campaigners were...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 29, 2024 | Briefing
NEW ANALYSIS from Citizens Advice has found that more than two million people across Great Britain will disconnect from their gas and electricity this winter because they cannot afford to top up their prepayment meter. The charity is concerned that for many it will...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 29, 2024 | Briefing
THE NUMBER of homes which have been upgraded through the government’s landmark insulation schemes has dropped around 40 per cent in a single year, according to analysis from the New Economics Foundation (NEF). The analysis finds that as of last year, the government’s...
by Admin | Jan 28, 2024 | Update
EKKLESIA is delighted to be promoting a forthcoming online seminar and discussion on Free Speech, Responsible Speech, and Hate Speech: Spiritual, Social, and Policy Perspectives. organised by our friends at the Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 28, 2024 | Briefing
CHRISTIAN Aid and 15 leading humanitarian and human rights organisations have issued a call to all UN member states to stop fuelling the crisis in Gaza and avert further humanitarian catastrophe and loss of civilian life. The statement reads: We, the undersigned...
by Jill Segger | Jan 27, 2024 | Commentary, Uncategorised
A CENTURY AGO this week, the first Labour government took office. This administration lasted for nine months and Labour was not really to establish itself as a parliamentary force for another couple of decades This should not surprise anyone. Power arranges matters...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 27, 2024 | Briefing
THE Rabbinical Council of Jewish Voice for Peace has written an open letter to President Biden. Published on 26 January, the letter looks forward to Holocaust Remembrance Day, and reflects on the current situation in Israel and Palestine. The rabbis say they...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 27, 2024 | Briefing
ENDING the cycle of broken promises to reform social care funding in England must be a priority for the next government, a Health Foundation report says. Currently, Government only covers the costs of care for people with the highest needs and lowest means. Everyone...
by Staff Writer | Jan 26, 2024 | Briefing
A LEADING ecumenical Christian peace organisation has joined with other faith groups and NGOs to call for a ceasefire after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accepted South Africa’s case that Israel has a case to answer for the slaughter, destruction and...
