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Bishop wants research into welfare reform-food bank use ‘link’
Research is needed into whether government welfare reforms have caused more people to become dependent on food banks, the Bishop of Truro says.
Bishop Thornton said foodbanks were dealing with “a desperate need for food”The Right Reverend Tim Thornton said it was vital to understand if there was any sort of link.
A study by Church Action Poverty and Oxfam said more than 500,000 people in the UK may rely on food banks because of benefit cuts and unemployment.
The government said its reforms aimed to improve the lives of poor families.
Bishop Thornton said: “We need to ask for the facts as to why people are in this situation, and why there is such a desperate need for food.
“It wouldn’t take much work to point out how these things are growing.”
In response to the recent Church Action Poverty and Oxfam study, the government said its welfare reforms would “improve the lives of some of the poorest families in our communities”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-23216487
Carer mum forced to bath disabled son at Premier Inn
A MUM told last night how she is forced to wash her disabled teenage son in an £80-a-night HOTEL because housing bosses refuse to install a bath in her home.
Baroness Deech introduces equal marriage bill amendment to include carers
Baroness Deech introduced the amendment to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) BillBaroness Deech has introduced an amendment, which would add the provision to include cohabiting family members or carers in the bill to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill.
The amendment will be considered by peers when the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, goes into its Report stage in the House of Lords on 8 July.
The chair of the Bar Standards Board already asserted during Committee stage that if same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, then cohabiting family members and carers should share the same rights, and tabled, before withdrawing a similar amendment.
The amendment specifically aims to extend civil partnership rights to “unpaid carers and those they care for, and family members who share a house, who have cohabited for 5 years or more and are over the age of eighteen, and the case for creating a new legal status that would confer all the benefits of civil partnerships upon those mentioned in paragraph (a) without amending the criteria for eligibility for civil partnership.”
The amendment would make the bill protect carers and family members in “cases of long-term house-sharing”.
Baroness Deech’s previous amendment was also supported by Baroness Butler-Sloss, who said earlier this year that the Government should stop “faffing around with gay marriage”, and the Bishop of Ripon.
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