{"id":30527,"date":"2012-01-27T17:09:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T17:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_c_of_e_bishops_win_lords_victory_on_benefit_for_voteless_child\/"},"modified":"2012-01-27T17:09:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T17:09:04","slug":"church_times_c_of_e_bishops_win_lords_victory_on_benefit_for_voteless_child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30527","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) C of E Bishops win Lords victory on benefit for \u201d\u02dcvoteless\u2019 children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishops led the House of Lords on Monday evening to vote in favour of an amendment excluding child benefit from the proposed cap on benefits in the Welfare Reform Bill.<\/p>\n<p>Children\u2019s charities welcomed the amendment, proposed by the Bishop of Ripon &#038; Leeds, the Rt Revd John Packer, as a safeguard for those \u201d\u201d about a quarter of a million children \u201d\u201d who are ex\u00c2\u00adpected to bear the impact of the cap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government must not ignore the fact that the Lords have spoken out to defend the plight of some of the country\u2019s most disad\u00c2\u00advantaged children,\u201d\u009d the Children\u2019s Society\u2019s policy director, Enver Solomon, said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/churchtimes.co.uk\/content.asp?id=123674\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishops led the House of Lords on Monday evening to vote in favour of an amendment excluding child benefit from the proposed cap on benefits in the Welfare Reform Bill. Children\u2019s charities welcomed the amendment, proposed by the Bishop of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30527\">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":[36,39,40,50,74,101,389,635,149,199,98,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30527","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-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30527","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=30527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}