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Download or read book Armed Forces Service Complaints and Financial Assistance Bill HL written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Armed Forces (Service Complaints and Financial Assistance) Bill (HL) deals with two matters: reform of the Service complaints system; payments to charities and other organisations which support the armed forces community. The Service Complaints Commissioner (currently Dr Susan Atkins) said she could not provide an assurance that the current system was working and was critical of how long it took to resolve complaints particularly those relating to bullying, harassment and improper behaviour. She also raised the issue of the level of manpower needed to support the system. The House of Commons Defence Committee, in a report on the work of the Service Complaints Commissioner (8th report of session 2012-13, HC 720, ISBN 9780215054456) recommended the creation of an Armed Forces Ombudsman. The Bill makes the legislative changes needed to take forward the Government's proposed reforms. The Bill creates a Service Complaints Ombudsman to replace the existing Service Complaints Commissioner. It sets out the framework for the redress of service complaints including who can make a complaint and how complaints will be investigated (both internally within the Armed Forces and, if necessary, by the Ombudsman). The Bill introduces a reformed and streamlined appeals process and gives the new Ombudsman powers in relation to the complaints system and also includes a power to make payments to charities, benevolent organisations and others for the benefit of the armed forces community.

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Download or read book Armed Forces Service Complaints and Financial Assistance Bill HL written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Armed Forces (Service Complaints and Financial Assistance) Bill (HL) deals with two matters: reform of the Service complaints system; payments to charities and other organisations which support the armed forces community. The Service Complaints Commissioner (currently Dr Susan Atkins) said she could not provide an assurance that the current system was working and was critical of how long it took to resolve complaints particularly those relating to bullying, harassment and improper behaviour. She also raised the issue of the level of manpower needed to support the system. The House of Commons Defence Committee, in a report on the work of the Service Complaints Commissioner (8th report of session 2012-13, HC 720, ISBN 9780215054456) recommended the creation of an Armed Forces Ombudsman. The Bill makes the legislative changes needed to take forward the Government's proposed reforms. The Bill creates a Service Complaints Ombudsman to replace the existing Service Complaints Commissioner. It sets out the framework for the redress of service complaints including who can make a complaint and how complaints will be investigated (both internally within the Armed Forces and, if necessary, by the Ombudsman). The Bill introduces a reformed and streamlined appeals process and gives the new Ombudsman powers in relation to the complaints system and also includes a power to make payments to charities, benevolent organisations and others for the benefit of the armed forces community.

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Download or read book Armed Forces Service Complaints and Financial Assistance Bill HL written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Bill creates a Service Complaints Ombudsman to replace the existing Service Complaints Commissioner. The Ombudsman will be appointed by Her Majesty on the recommendation of the Defence Secretary. It sets out the framework for the redress of service complaints including who can make a complaint and how complaints will be investigated (both internally within the armed forces and, if necessary, by the Ombudsman) and introduces a reformed and streamlined appeals process. It also gives the new Ombudsman powers in relation to the complaints system. The detail of the complaints procedure will, as now, largely be set out in secondary legislation and the Bill includes powers to set out in regulations the details governing the reformed complaints system (including on the admissibility of complaints, eligibility of decision-makers, requirements relating to independent decision-making and procedural matters in relation to Ombudsman investigations). Provision is also made for the continuation of certain functions currently exercised by the Service Complaints Commissioner: the referral of allegations into the service complaints system, the right to be notified of the progress of those complaints and a duty to prepare an annual report on the system to the Secretary of State which is then laid before Parliament. Included is a power to make payments to charities, benevolent organisations and others for the benefit of the armed forces community.

Download or read book HL 49 HC 746 Legislative Scrutiny 1 Serious Crime Bill 2 Criminal Justice and Courts Bill Second Report and 3 Armed Forces Service Complaints and Financial Assistance Bill written by The Stationery Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommends amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill to ensure that private (or voluntary) sector care homes which accommodate publicly-funded residents are brought within the scope of the Human Rights Act. House of Commons papers 303 2007-08.

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Download or read book HL 106 HC 594 Violence Against Women and Girls written by Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2015 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government's progressive work on tackling violence against women and girls abroad is not translating into its domestic policy, despite its Violence against Women and Girls Action Strategy and the Home Secretary's personal commitment to the issue. The Committee warns that failure to provide adequate refuge spaces and specialist services for victims of violence against women and girls demonstrates the difficulty for the Government in fulfilling its international obligations under the Convention when decisions over commissioning of certain services has been devolved. The Committee also expresses alarm at the prevalence of violence against women and girls across many cultures in the UK today, and heard troubling evidence from many minority groups that represent women with particular needs. The portrayal of women as victims of violence is deeply embedded in cultural stereotypes, in the depiction of women in the media and in how women are treated in the asylum system. This has to stop The Committee's recommendations include that: schools should play a greater role and include issues of violence against women and girls within the PSHE curriculum; whilst the Government has taken steps to engage with the media and with public awareness campaigns to counteract the sexualised portrayal of women, noting that the BBC declined invitations to give evidence to this inquiry, the media themselves should do more; the Government look again at the payment of universal credit to couples because of its concerns that it could put women subject to domestic violence at risk.