This week CARE welcomed a report scrutinising the Government’s plans to regulate remote (online) gambling. The report issued by the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee gives full support for the principle of regulating gambling on a ‘point of consumption’ basis. In December last year, the Government published a draft Bill with the intention of [...]

Nola Leach, Chief Executive of CARE, shared: ‘While CARE would commend all the positive work that Steve Chalke has done in society, we do not agree with him on this issue and so welcome the Evangelical Alliance’s statements. We believe that pastoral care within the Church must be shaped by love, grace and truth as revealed [...]

Dear friend, You will probably have heard that this week the Government issued a response to its ‘Equal Civil Marriage’ consultation and announced plans to introduce a Bill to allow same-sex couples to marry. The Minister for Women and Equalities, Maria Miller MP, described receiving ‘a record’ 228,000 responses to the Government consultation earlier this [...]

CARE welcomes yesterday’s announcement from Commissioner Barnier, the EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, launching a Europe-wide action plan on online gambling. The Commissioner recognised the harms that gambling addiction causes citizens and their families; according to the latest statistics there are 400,000 problem gamblers in the UK alone. The Commissioner went on to [...]

Thursday 18 October is Anti-Slavery Day in the UK. A day intended to draw awareness to the fact that human trafficking remains a growing phenomenon. There are more people enslaved worldwide today than there were 200 years ago in the lead up to the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. Vulnerable men and women are being [...]

Children will benefit from a recognition of marriage within the tax system and there needs to be a ‘cultural change’ in the way that children are viewed, said the Lord Bishop of Chester today. In a debate he secured in the House of Lords, the Rt Revd Dr Peter Forster, the Bishop of Chester, emphasised [...]

CARE is greatly encouraged to read the comments made by Don Foster MP, the Lib Dem Communities Minister, in the Daily Mail today, particularly in relation to online gambling.  The Government is poised to introduce a new regulatory regime for offshore gambling, requiring websites based overseas, for example in Antigua, to gain a UK Gambling [...]

Yesterday the Liberal Democrat conference debated and passed a motion backing the legalisation of ‘medically assisted dying’.  Although this does little to change official Liberal Democrat policy (they have long been in favour of such a move and passed a motion endorsing this at conference in 2004), there are a few important things we can [...]

The European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee’s decision to support the Opinion Report of Rapporteur Piotyr Borys MEP (by a majority of 15 votes to 8) is very welcome.  Included in the Opinion Report was a clause which requires human embryonic stem cell research to be added to the list of activities for which EU funding [...]

The UK Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC) became part of the Serious Organised Crime Agency’s response to trafficking in 2010. The UKHTC is responsible for collecting data on trafficking in the UK. It has just this month released its first report, assessing the situation in the UK for 2011. The head of the UKHTC, David Dillnut, [...]