British Isles
The Government’s counter-extremism strategy could seriously backfire and damage the values it is intending to uphold, a range of critics have warned. A senior police chief, a national newspaper and a legal commentator have all highlighted…
The head of Ofsted reports that employers are offering poor-quality, low-level apprenticeships that are wasting public funds and abusing the trust placed in them by the Government and apprentices. Retail and care workers are particularly likely…
Slavery in the United Kingdom
23 Oct 2015
Last Friday, the country’s first anti-slavery commissioner spoke out against the treatment of modern-day slavery victims by the UK authorities. Kevin Hyland said officers don’t know how to handle victims and there could be as many…
Wilberforce Academy
23 Oct 2015
Every year Christian Concern runs an academy for young people called the Wilberforce Academy, named after the famous reformer William Wilberforce. It’s a four-day residential course to train and equip the invited students on what it…
Prayer for steelworkers
23 Oct 2015
Revd Peter Vickers, a chaplain working at a Tata Steel site where 900 jobs are being axed, is asking Christians to pray for those facing uncertainty, saying, ‘You've got fear of what is going to happen;…
On 5 October a senior occupational therapist who was disciplined for giving a Christian book to a Muslim colleague was granted permission to appeal an Employment Tribunal ruling against her. The judge recognised the significance of…