Policy & Practice: Briefing - The role faith can play in communitylife

So how relevant is this to non-Christians? Well, it addresses the way we all live together in cities that are changing in ethnic and religious makeup at an unprecedented pace, so if you don't care about that, feel free to ignore it. For the rest, it has a lot to say about the role of faith groups in individual lives and in the way they bring people together to act as social forces. There is also much that would seem to share many of the values and principles adopted by the youth service and others working with young people.

Understood - so what kind of support will we find? Let's start with the general and move to the specific. The widening gap between super-rich and desperate poor must be addressed, and the report calls for the notion of a "living wage" to replace the minimum wage. But there is also discussion of broader notions of happiness that go beyond the material and consider fulfilment; secure personal relationships; community life; freedom "including the scope to participate in matters affecting one's life"; good health, especially mental health; and a philosophy of life, including a commitment to something beyond the individual. Following the example of Leicester, held up as a city where faith communities have committed to work together, the report calls for young people's Councils of Faith to be established.