Child Abuse
Responding to today’s announcement that the GMC is seeking views on a revised version of Good medical practice, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said that it will be scrutinising the significant changes being proposed. The MDU, the UK’s leading medical defence organisation, explained that regulations must be compatible with the realities of doctors’ working lives and… Read more »
BASC, the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation, has expelled for life a member convicted of wildlife crime and firearms offences. Expulsion from BASC involves the loss of shooting insurance, on which the ability to shoot may depend, and other benefits of membership. The member from Nottinghamshire pleaded guilty to unlawfully trapping and beating to… Read more »
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The inquiry announced by Theresa May last week into judge Ronald Waterhouse’s original investigation of child abuse in north Wales care homes should be dropped after Tory paedophile allegations were dropped, peers have said.
Harriet Harman went out on a limb to defend the BBC today, amid a crisis of confidence at the institution in the wake of George Entwistle’s resignation.
