Service providers 'must conform to Human Rights Act'

By David Ainsworth, Third Sector Online, 10 July 2008

Charities that provide services to government should have to obey the Human Rights Act and the Freedom of Information Act, a Commons select committee report has recommended.

Public Services and the Third Sector: Rhetoric and Reality , published today by the Public Administration Select Committee, said that users of public services should receive the same level of protection under the law whoever provided their services. It said that for this reason charities should be required to abide...

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