John Doe took a last drag from his cigarette, stubbed the butt into a tray and stepped from the terrace to the laptop on his desk. It was a balmy summer s evening in August 2017 and he had spent months thinking about his job at the Department of Agriculture and the right thing to do about some very inconvenient truths. Now he was doing it: "Dear Minister, pursuant to the Protected Disclosures Act 2014, I wish to make the following Protected Disclosures."
Big Read: Paul Kimmage examines the troubling case of the whistleblower in the Department of Agriculture
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Karen is not impressed as foster teenagers, Tom and Ella continue to spin their lies on Doctors. But will she regret confronting them about their behaviour?
Karen Hollins (played by Jan Pearson) is becoming increasingly worried about her foster son, Tom Robson’s (Max True) aggressive behaviour on Doctors (1:45pm on BBC One, see our TV Guide for full listings)
Tom and his teenage sister, Ella (Lily-Mae Evans) came to live with Karen and her policeman husband, Rob (Chris Walker) after the murder of their mum.
But something still doesn’t quite add up about the day their mum died and their dad was sent to prison.
THANKS to British governments copying the ugly US-plan of jail privatisation, a multinational corporation can make money out of miserable conditions on two continents.
Just before Christmas three regulators demanded “urgent action” to improve grim conditions at the privately run Rainsbrook youth jail in Warwickshire. The poor treatment of the locked-up youngsters is not surprising, given the firm running the jail: the Management and Training Corporation (MTC) are also known for some shocking conditions in private jails in their native US.
On December 18, Ofsted, HM Inspectorate of Prisons and the Care Quality Commission jointly issued what they called a “rare urgent notification” obliging Tory Justice Secretary Robert Buckland to make improvements at Rainsbrook in 28 days. The three regulators said that Rainsbrook, a “secure training centre” for young offenders in Warwickshire, was a “spartan regime where children were given little encouragement to get up in the morni