The Charity Commission has published its latest disclosures on whistleblowing in 2020-2021. There has been a 75% in the numbers of whistleblowing disclosures compared to the previous reporting period for 2019-2020. The primary issues raised were …
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Charities have lost £8.6m to fraudsters in the last year, according to data analysed by Action Frau and published by the Charity Commission to mark Charity Fraud Awareness Week. Action Fraud collated 1,059 separate incidents …
Students and staff at the University of Durham have accused management of showing a “culture of apathy” towards bullying and harassment and allowing such “abuses of power” to continue”. They stated that they no longer …
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A report from the Fawcett Society has found that 45 per cent of women who had experienced harassment encountered it online through sexual messages, cyber harassment and sexual calls. Almost a quarter of women who had been …
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The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has upheld “a number” of complaints made by staff regarding harassment and discrimination. Ten complaints were lodged in October 2020, following an independent report which concluded that bullying …
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A tribunal has found that a school failed to meet the need for a ‘thorough and careful’ investigation when it dismissed Mohammad Basit. It rules that Basit, who had worked at the school since 2012 …
