What the general election manifestos mean for the voluntary sector
The Conservatives, Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party and Reform have all now published their general election manifestos.
Each manifesto offers a more detailed picture of what the party plans to do if it’s elected into government. This includes an outline of specific policies that could impact charities and the communities we work with.
It’s important to remember that a manifesto is not a legally binding contract between a future government and the electorate. There’s no statutory requirement for the party that forms the next government to deliver the policies in their manifesto.
But it’s a promise between that future government and the electorate and there’s often significant political pressure to put into practice key parts of a manifesto. Referring back to manifesto promises is one way that people, organisations and other politicians can try and hold the government to account.
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Churchgoers ‘significantly more likely’ to vote centre or left, poll finds
CHURCHGOERS in England and Wales are significantly more likely than the general population to vote for centrist or left-wing parties at the General Election on Thursday, new polling from the Bible Society suggests.
A survey of 1214 “active” Christians — people who attend church at least once a month — was carried out during the first two weeks of June, and published on Friday. Respondents were pooled from the Bible Society’s Resonate panel of about 5000 churchgoing Christians.
Of all respondents, 70 per cent said that they intended to vote for left-wing or centre-left parties: 40 per cent Labour, 23 per cent Liberal Democrat, and seven per cent Green.
A YouGov survey of 2144 UK adults, conducted on 3 and 4 June, put the voting intentions for the general population at 57 per cent for these parties: 40 per cent Labour, 10 per cent Liberal Democrat, and seven per cent Green.
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‘It opens eyes’: How one UK school has welcomed and learned from refugees
When a hotel in the village of Birchanger started hosting refugees in 2022, a group of the fathers turned up at the local school one day and asked: “Can our children join?”
It was both an easy and a difficult decision for Birchanger Church of England primary school in Essex. The school sees itself as a welcoming space rooted in the community, yet staff feared that, like most schools, they would be left on their own to integrate the new pupils.
The intake of children from Kurdistan, Iran, Colombia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Ukraine and Afghanistan increased the school’s population by 12%, shifting it away from a monoculture, with new dietary and religious requirements to factor in.
“It quite quickly changed the dynamic of the school,” said the headteacher, Sharon Vessey.
“It was such a sudden increase in numbers, we had to look at the logistics of classrooms. We had to have another teacher to teach them [English]. It was unknown territory to us; we didn’t know how they were going to be, what they’d been through.”
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