{"id":23740,"date":"2010-12-31T15:59:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T15:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_faith_groups_will_not_fill_gaps_left_by_spending_cuts_warns_anglic\/"},"modified":"2010-12-31T15:59:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T15:59:36","slug":"guardian_faith_groups_will_not_fill_gaps_left_by_spending_cuts_warns_anglic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23740","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Faith groups will not fill gaps left by spending cuts, warns Anglican bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Church of England bishop has warned that faith groups will not step in to fill the gap left by state spending cuts, saying it would be &#8220;completely irresponsible&#8221; to leave the care of the vulnerable in the hands of &#8220;amateurs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The bishop of Leicester, Tim Stevens, who has spoken forcefully about David Cameron&#8217;s proposals for a &#8220;big society&#8221;, said that although faith groups were ready and willing to play a greater part in community life, their enthusiasm and engagement should not mean the government rolled back on its responsibilities to the needy.<\/p>\n<p>The warning follows fears expressed by a leading charity figure this week, David Robinson of Community Links, who said massive public spending cuts threatened to undermine the big society project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2010\/dec\/30\/bishop-big-society-faith-groups\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Church of England bishop has warned that faith groups will not step in to fill the gap left by state spending cuts, saying it would be &#8220;completely irresponsible&#8221; to leave the care of the vulnerable in the hands<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23740\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,50,74,389,635,199,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}