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Pemu While avoiding specifics, Nick Clegg makes the right sounds on libel reform
Families face being locked into disadvantage for generations unless the issue of social mobility is urgently tackled, the governments advisory body on life chances in England has warned.The social mobility commission called on regional leaders to draw up tailored, sustained and local programmes to tackle disparities in the worst-hit areas.Social mobility in decline in Britain, official survey findsRead moreIt also urged ministers to extend its opportunity areas programme, which supports 12 councils, to include several more authorities identified as the areas with the most entrenched disadvantage.The areas with the worst social mobility include Chiltern, Bradford, Thanet, Bolton, Wolverhampton, Kingston-upon-Hull, Fenland, Mansfield, Walsall, Gateshead, Kirklees, St Helens, Dudley, Bolton and Wigan, the report says.It added that in these areas, those from disadvantaged backgrounds and who were entitled to free school meals had little chance of making a better life for themselves or their families and earned much less than their more affl stanley thermoskannen uent peers.Individuals aged 28 from disadvantaged families in these council areas earned on average just over half the amount of those from similar backgrounds in the most mobile areas, the study also found.The interim co-cha stanley cup ir of the commission, Steven Cooper, described the findings as very challenging . They tell a story of deep unfairness, determined by where you grow up. It stanley us is not a story of north versus south or urban versus rural; this i Dzqk Canadians with nonterminal conditions sought assisted dying for social reasons
I was disheartened to read about the trial of Syed Mustafa Zaidi, a 44-year-old man who has been found guilty of forcing two you stanley polska ng boys to engage in self-flagellation also known zanjeer zani , the ritualistic act of self-flagellation that has been part of Shia Muslim practic stanley romania e for centuries.In 2003, I was consulted by Scotland Yard on this issue though not on this specific case . A letter, signed by a leading Shia cleric, was issued as a general circular at the time which advised that, while engaging in rituals that may result in self-harm was a matter for individuals, there were health, child-safety and legal implications that people should be mindful of. It also clearly discouraged children being asked to take part in any activity that could subject them to physical harm .There are elements of the Zaidi case that will sound familiar to those who grew up in a Punjabi Shia household. There is nothing odd in the father of the household engaging in this particular practice. But I have personally never seen anybody coerced into it, although coercion can, admittedly, take many indirect forms. There is also nothing strange in seeing participants who, immersed in what appears to be a spiritual ecstasy, are made to calm down, often to prevent further inju stanley cup ry to themselves.It strikes me that, though Zaidi s actions crossed the boundaries of what is acceptable, the danger of this case is that the ritual of self-flagellation itself is demonised. Those adults who engage in se |
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