{"id":89018,"date":"2020-01-29T14:30:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T19:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89018"},"modified":"2020-01-29T18:35:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T23:35:08","slug":"cen-bishop-alan-smith-wants-inquest-law-to-focus-on-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89018","title":{"rendered":"(CEN) Bishop Alan Smith wants inquest law to focus on gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Coroners (Determination of Suicide) Bill 2020 received its first reading in the House of Lords last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have introduced this common-sense piece of legislation so the Government can begin to get a handle on the consequences of gambling-related harm,\u201d Bishop Smith told the House of Lords.<br \/>\n\u201cThis new legislation will mean, for the first time, each instance where gambling is a factor in suicide coroners will record it in conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have met far too many families whose lives have been destroyed by the loss of a loved one, often young adults who have their entire lives ahead of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs there is no accurate, up-to-date, data linking gambling with suicide, their desire to get the Government to take action has often been stymied,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchnewspaper.com\/79628\/archives\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coroners (Determination of Suicide) Bill 2020 received its first reading in the House of Lords last Thursday. \u201cI have introduced this common-sense piece of legislation so the Government can begin to get a handle on the consequences of gambling-related<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89018\">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":[389,635,199,87,114,108,603],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-gambling","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89018","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=89018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89020,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89018\/revisions\/89020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}