Support and advice for issues of social responsibility and social justice.

God's story is Good News for all of us. Jesus comes because we need to be sustained and nurtured by the power of this story.

Social justice in Wakefield Diocese is about connecting with God's story. At the heart of this Good News story we discover justice, acceptance, love and truth breaking out into our communities and lives.

Here are some of the things we can do, working together with you in God's world and with that story. Downloadable resource and advice sheets are available from here.

The Social Responsibility team offers:

• Worship resources for many of the special Sundays throughout the Church's year
• Harvest Festival material
• Racial Justice material
• Ministering to the older person
• Help for the homeless in Wakefield
• Parenting Courses
• Examples of good social responsibility practice from across the country
• Access through our partnerships with all our local authorities into a wide spectrum of disciplines
• Small funding packages to get your larger projects started
• Help in providing job descriptions and management services advice
• Advice on the right legal status for projects
• Short courses for those wishing to explore an issue at a deeper level
• Material for Study Groups
• Audit material to help you run a Disability check-up on your buildings and practices
• An emergency plan for the churches faced with a major disaster
• Training for laity and clergy on a whole range of issues
• Justice and Peace advice and resources
• Environmental advice and resources
• Order and Law material
• A help directory of contacts of organisations
• Access to regional and national church networks
• International Affairs advice and resources
• Access to Church Urban Fund resources
• Drugs education and advice
• Access to all Voluntary Actions in the Diocese
• Access to the training programmes of Voluntary Actions
• Help to former coalfield areas
• Support for those who live and work on outer estates
• ...and much much more besides.

Remember, if it's not on the list then just ask!

Contact:
Social Responsibility Officer - Revd Maureen Browell

Theology & Society

Theology & Society is an occasional publication from the Social Responsibility Group for the Diocese of Wakefield. It is a resource for clergy and laity across the diocese and aims to include theological reflection on topical issues, information about courses and events, as well as book reviews, comments and ideas.

Issue 1 - focus on poverty
Issue 2 - focus on family

Downloadable resource sheets:

Alcohol - advice
A place of refuge - a positive approach to asylum seekers and refugees in the UK (external link pdf 223kb)
Asylum seekers - advice
Asylum applications - a briefing paper for ministers called to give evidence in support of asylum applications, produced by the Methodist Church (external link)
Asylum Seekers and Travellers: welcoming transient communities - a briefing paper produced by the Churches Regional Commission for Yorkshire and Humber (external link)
Bereavement - advice
Drugs - advice
Families and parenting - advice
Family and Social Welfare Council
Gambling - advice
Gay and lesbian - advice
HIV and AIDS - advice
Housing and homelessness - advice
Marriage and divorce - advice
Mental health - advice
Missing persons - advice
Promoting a Safe Church - Policy for safeguarding adults in the Church of England 2006 (external link pdf 312kb)
Protecting All God's Children: House of Bishops Report 2004 (external link pdf 175kb)
Responding to Domestic Abuse: Guidelines for those with pastoral responsibility 2006 (external link pdf 459kb)
Sexual abuse - advice
Strangers into friends - a resource to help churches in Wakefield offer support to asylum seekers and refugees