{"id":85792,"date":"2019-10-24T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85792"},"modified":"2019-10-24T06:32:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T10:32:15","slug":"bishop-alan-smith-says-society-must-not-accept-child-gambling-crisis-following-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85792","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Alan Smith says society must not accept child gambling &#8216;crisis&#8217; following report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk\/news-action-and-statistics\/news\/2019\/Gambling-Commission-publishes-the-2019-Young-People-and-Gambling-report.aspx\">2019 Young People and Gambling report<\/a> which was published on Wednesday, Bishop Alan said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This new evidence from the Gambling Commission provides welcome and much-needed insight into the world of gambling that children are living in<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There continue to be 55,000 children classed as \u201cproblem gamblers\u201d and a further 87,000 at risk. While this remains a national scandal, the Commission uses detached phrases such as: \u201cThe 2019 results do not represent a significant increase over time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tens of thousands of families could be living in a nightmare with their child&#8217;s level of gambling activity. When the average spend on gambling by children is \u00a317 per week it is evidence of potential serious family finance problems&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/more\/media-centre\/news\/bishop-says-society-must-not-accept-child-gambling-crisis-following-report\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We look forward to welcoming to All Saints\u2019 the Right Reverend Alan Smith, Bishop of St Albans.<br \/>\nBishop Alan will join us next Sunday to celebrate our Patronal Festival, and to Baptise and Confirm several candidates.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Ue9SdqcBK\">https:\/\/t.co\/0Ue9SdqcBK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t1H01HdCcL\">pic.twitter.com\/t1H01HdCcL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 All Saints HR (@AllSaintsHR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AllSaintsHR\/status\/1057241108605034496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the 2019 Young People and Gambling report which was published on Wednesday, Bishop Alan said: &#8220;This new evidence from the Gambling Commission provides welcome and much-needed insight into the world of gambling that children are living in &#8220;There<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85792\">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":[101,389,635,199,168,87,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-gambling","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85792","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=85792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85795,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85792\/revisions\/85795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}