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Coventry: Not Just Visitors Who Benefit: Volunteer Tony's Story
“My only friend is the TV,” Tony thought as a young man. Life has had its ups and downs but applying for a job as a support worker at Coventry Jesus Centre has led to an unexpected turnabout in Tony’s life. Tony is married to Toni and has four children. He answers a few questions:Published: 14th Nov 2014
“My only friend is the TV,” Tony thought as a young man. Life has had its ups and downs but applying for a job as a support worker at Coventry Jesus Centre has led to an unexpected turnabout in Tony’s life.
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Northampton: Prison: My Wake Up Call
Starting again after life on the inside can feel impossible. A knock on his cell door set Andy Clark on the road to a new life.Published: 5th Jul 2010
The facts
About 504 people sleep outside every night
8 out of every 10 prisoners admit to drug misuse prior to prison
7 out of every 10 prisoners have been in prison before
7 out of every 10 prisoners are unemployed prior to prison
7 out of every 10 female prisoners have no formal qualifications
6 out of every 10 male sentenced prisoners consume alcohol haphazardly
5 out of every 10 male prisoners were excluded from school
3 out of every 10 prisoners have been in care
Source: Prison Fellowship
In 1976 Andy Clark was working four days on/three days off as a nursing auxiliary in a mental hospital in Lancashire. One night he got back late to his hostel, walked...
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Missing Persons
A report from the Children's Society states that 18,000 children under 11 run away each year in the UK.Published: 1st Jul 2010A report from the Children's Society states that 18,000 children, under 11, run away each year in the UK. Shockingly, children who start running away before the age of 11 are nearly three times more likely to be sexually assaulted on the streets and twice as likely to be hit by their parents than older runaways. They are also more likely to sleep rough and be bullied at school.
Research also shows that 100,000 children under 16 (one in nine of the age group population) run away from home or care every year in the UK.
'Ian Sparks Chief Executive of The Children's Society said: "Running away at such a young age is a warning sign that a child is in trouble. We need to offer the support they need, when they...
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Domestic violence
UK society is waking up to the half-hidden horror of the nation's domestic violence.Published: 1st Jul 2010Wives, husbands, partners, children - all can be victims of the violence that erupts in the privacy of the family home.
When police forces across Britain decided to find out how much domestic violence there was in the UK, they chose a single day in September, did a study on incidents reported that - and got a tremendous shock.
"Using the survey ... we could say that an Incident of domestic violence occurs in the UK every six to 20seconds," reported London University's Professor Betsy Stanko, who analysed the results.
On the day of the survey, police received 1,300 callsrelating to domestic violence -which suggests a staggering 570,000 calls a year. Most calls related to attacks on women and included...
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