Jun/090
New laws equals better protection but mediums and fortune tellers are NOT happy!
The new rules regarding consumer protection will mean better protection for consumers and hopefully banish rogue traders. It is set to ban 31 types of unfair sales tactics and enforce the new regulations on traders such as double glazing salesmen.
There will be no more loopholes for rogue traders, and those who do try to exploit vulnerable consumers could face prison sentences. This will be people who are aggressive in their sales pitches, and those using misleading statements such as phony closing down sales or limited time offers that go on and on and aren’t really ‘limited’ at all.
All that said, one of the leading groups who are opposing the new regulations are mediums and fortune tellers saying it will lead to the end of their business because they will have to tell consumers that their work isn’t experimentally proven” and is “for entertainment only”.
Jun/090
Government Asset Protection Scheme
The new Government Protection Scheme will insure banks against asset losses and they will therefore be able to commit more to lending.
RBS had currently signed and now Lloyds have signed up to the scheme which will see them lending around £28 billion.
However, the Government has said that although taxpayers will eventually get something back, they “do not plan on nationalising the banking sector”.
Jun/090
Children being taken into care unnecessarily
Research has shown that Social Services are misusing the Children Act and taking children into care that don’t actually need to be. Some families merely need help, rather than taking the children away.
It has been emphasised many times that children should only be taken away from their families as a last resort, and that the families should receive support to prevent their children being taken into care. Researches also feel that the welfare of the whole family should be taken into consideration and supported, rather than just the child as this will in turn keep more children from entering into the care system. This was the goal of the Children Act in the first place.
Although the government is urging Social Services to thoroughly look at their cases before removing any child, they are not going to review guidance as to how to act and enforce the Children Act.
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