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Jasmine Cannon-Ikurusi Wigodo, Conservatives Jasmine Cannon-Ikurusi Wigodo, Conservatives. - Credit: The UK Sapphire Foundation Jasmine Cannon-Ikurusi Wigodo is campaigning on a platform of improved health and wellbeing, opportunities for employment and training in the borough, a reduction of crime rates, and improved road safety awareness. Founder of NGO Sapphire Community Group, which works to help young people with employment support, mental health, personal development and empowerment through the creative arts, the Conservative candidate pledged also to work on homelessness and social hou...

What can one of the UK’s biggest landowners do to put its resources where its mouth is? Elizabeth Hopkirk reports Some of the biggest barriers to the Church of England using more of its land for genuinely affordable housing could be overcome before the end of this year, the chair of the C of E’s housing commission predicts. Thousands of high-quality homes could be developed as a result, says Charlie Arbuthnot, a specialist in social housing financing who led the archbishops’ Commission on Housing, Church and Community whose report, Coming Home, was launched last month. Individual church...

Next Bishop of Chelmsford will be fast-tracked into House of Lords

Guli Francis-Dehqani, the Church of England’s new bishop for housing The Church of England has appointed a bishop for housing. Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, the next Bishop of Chelmsford, will sit in the House of Lords and advocate on issues of housing justice. The church’s decision to appoint a bishop for housing comes ahead of next month’s expected publication of the report from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Commission on Housing, Church and Community. Her role will include leading the church’s efforts to implement its findings. The commission was set up two years ago by Justin Welby,...