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About FtC and how it works	Values & Ideas of FtC	Government Ethics/ War
Help for Employees	Help for Employers	Financial Services Ethics
Healthcare Ethics / Nursing	Business Ethics	Social Work Ethics
Science Ethics	Ethics in Policing	Ethics in Education
Food & Agriculture	LINKS	AWorld of Conscience

                          

ABOUT FREEDOM TO CARE

• Aims & Activities- what we are all about
• Who runs Freedom to Care -personnel
• History of Freedom to Care
• MEMBERSHIP FORM
• Standing order
• General Publications of Freedom to Care
• MAP - London venues for FtC meetings
• Announcements  FtC Patron
• SOME  FtC whistleblower CASES 2001-3 2003 Cases
• FtC's Public Accountability Workshop 2003

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• Freedom to Care - In Memoriam
• Accounts of Freedom to Care since 1994
• Photo Album
• Annual General Meetings 2003 Meeting

 

THE VALUES OF FREEDOM TO CARE

• Freedom to Care is founded on a clear set of values:
• The Charter of Public Accountability (Japanese)
• The Charter of Public Accountability (English)
• The Charter of Public Accountability Charte de responsabilisation. (French)
• The Charter of Public Accountability  Carta sobre las responsabilidades públicas (Spanish)
• The VALUES of Freedom to Care  

 

OUR IDEA OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY

• Accountability Defined in Morals, Ethics & Law
• Ethical slogans and quotations from FtC
• More on Accountability - Positive & Negative, Hierarchy, Broken Circle
• The victimization process in five steps
• When is Whistleblowing Justifiable?
• Public Interest Disclosure Act (UK) - FtC's Criticism
• FtC proposal: ILO should protect whistleblowers
• Accountability staves off disaster (the 'whistlegenic' organization)
• Reading on accountability & whistleblowing - some suggestions for students
• Stanley Cohen on whistleblowers and Denial
• Whistleblowing and citizenship
• Is the USA government the most harmful unaccountable organisation in the world?

 

FREE HELP FOR EMPLOYEES, PROFESSIONALS, & CITIZENS

• Are you raising a concern at work & getting stuck? SURVIVAL GUIDE   [MAIN GUIDANCE]
• Legal assistance in  UK - Referral [guidance]
• Employment Law & Psychiatric injury [guidance]
• Ten principles - the accountable employer [guidance]
• Gagging clauses [guidance]
• Some information on bullying at work [guidance]
• Has your employer got this Anti-Bullying Policy? [guidance]
• Public Interest Disclosure Act (UK) - LINK to Act
• Could you be a victim of negligence? [guidance]
• How the messenger gets shot - what to expect at worst [guidance]
• How to petition parliament [guidance]
• Book: The Whistleblower's Handbook [guidance]
• Angry? Demoralised? Have you tried meditation? [link]
• Dignity at Work Bill

 

FREE HELP FOR EMPLOYERS & MANAGERS

• Four principles (OPAL) of ethical management [guidance]
• Ten principles - the accountable employer [guidance]
• Gagging clauses [guidance]
• Whistleblowing - a Thought for Managers [guidance]
• Model whistleblowing procedure [guidance]
• NHS ignores whistleblowing policy?
• A Model Anti-bullying Policy [guidance]
• How to Write an Ethics Code [guidance]
• How to Create an Ethics Committee [guidance]
• List of Corporate responsibility initiatives with URL links
• Negotiation / conflict-resolution model [guidance]

 

ETHICS IN FINANCIAL SERVICES

• What's wrong with financial services regulation?
• LINKS in financial services ethics & law
• Publications in financial services ethics

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• FTC's Financial services reform plan [guidance]
• Consumer involvement in FSA
• Response to FtC from Tory Shadow Chancellor
• The Ethical IFA: Second letter to Shadow Chancellor
• FSA central register - Accurate?
• UK Pensions mis-selling scandal - who is accountable?
• Colonial mutual insurance - FtC exposes malpractice
• Compliance officer sacked
• Opinion Piece: Open Letter to FSA on misdirected financial regulation
• Accountancy Academic speaks out

• NHS whistleblowing - 12 ways to shoot the messenger [guidance]
• NHS whistleblowing continues in 2002: Gammon, Awotona, etc.
• Barros D'Sa: NHS Coventry whistleblower consultant 2001
• Hospital suspensions continue 2002-3 
• Resuscitation Policy, Special Schools & the whistleblower
• Resuscitation - Bunny Pinnington (July 2002)
• Whistleblowing nurse Amanda Pinkney ignored by managers (July 2001)
• Radiologist Dr Jain blows whistle on breast screening (Jan 2000)
• Nurse John Kay blows whistle (Nov 2001)
• Medical secretary Irene Mounsey blows whistle (Aug 2002)
• Broadmoor whistleblower, Julia Wassell (March 2003)
• Doctors to be gagged (2003)?
• SARS and accountability, East and West

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• Charge Nurse Graham Pink blows the whistle
• A Personal Account: "Shaking the Gates" by Anne Brown
• A Retired medical director speaks out about NHS
• NHS I.T. Manager Betty Millar Blows the Whistle
• Dr Stephen Bolsin Blows the Whistle (Sept 1998)
• Dr Stephen Bolsin vindicated by July 2001 Official Report
• Suspension of NHS doctors, without public accountability (1999)
• Publications in Accountable Health Care
• Raising nursing concerns: UKCC (now NMC) advice [guidance]
• NHS bullying - research findings
• Nurses bullied - survey findings
• Go direct to DoH site on reform of Consent procedure

 

Sub-Index for INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR NURSING ETHICS Click

 

ETHICS IN SOCIAL WORK

• Child abuse in Wales -  FtC letter to Welsh Assembly
• New Social Care Code demands whistleblowing...
• ... But is the Code one-sided?
• Cardiff whistleblower
• Worker speaks up on child protection case
• Wales Children Commissioner's Report (March 2003)

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• Social care whistleblowers:  eight cases
• BOOK: "Whistleblowing in the social services" [guidance]
• A View on public sector unions [guidance]
• Publications in ethics of social services & social work
• The abuse of vulnerable adults - official guidance [guidance]
•  Two more child deaths (2001)
• The Waterhouse Report on North Wales child abuse
• Was Waterhouse denied evidence?

 

ETHICS IN SCIENCE & RESEARCH

• Is that research project ethical? [Guidance]
• Conscience Clause for whistleblowing scientists? (2003) 
• Nanotechnology and public accountability 
• Human clones, cloning and public accountability 

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• Industrial air pollution - FtC against Orimulsion
• Dr Chapman blows whistle on scientific fraud
• Dr Andrew Millar blows whistle on British Biotech
• Leaked report on nuclear waste backlog
• Halcion trials: Failure of public accountability
• Biotechnology, Bioethics and the Rights of the Disabled
• Research & Development Accountability (From Lab. News)
• Cartographer sacked for Alaska map on Internet

 

FOOD & AGRICULTURE

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• Direct link to Dr Narang's site: http://www.cjdfoundation.com
• BSE and CJD: Failure of accountability
• CJD spreading in USA & World?
• BSE-CJD UK Inquiry Dr Narang speaks out here
• Dr Harash Narang's books on BSE & CJD

 

ETHICS IN POLICING

• Police ethics -  Some Publications

• Police Raids under Patriot Act a threat to U.S. civil liberties

• Human rights & Policing

• Computer ethics checklist

• Creating an Ethics committee

• Model whistleblowing procedure

• LINKS for police researchers

• OPAL 4 principles of ethical management in policing

• Child Abuse & Accountability

• Code of Ethics in Policing

• Police Ideology & the Constitution (USA)

• Is Ethical Policing Possible? - A Brainstorm (UK)

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• Computer ethics and Policing

• Reform of Police Complaints Body

• Australian police corruption

 

ETHICS IN  EDUCATION

• Notes on bullying of teachers
• University sued for breach of academic freedom
• NUT, libel and Tim Field 

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• Whistleblowing at Swansea University - Sir Michael Davies reports

 

ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT

• The Management of ethics and conduct in the UK public service
• Intelligence officer David Shayler blows whistle
• The Dictatorial Powers of UK and USA Political Leaders
• Bill Nevins - USA student  poets victimised
• Mad cow whistleblower in USA 
• Katharine Gun blows whistle on USA pressure on UK 
• Daniel Ellsberg - new book, interview 

UK LOCAL GOVERNMENT

• Poor local government in Wales (2002)
• Flintshire (1) - called to account at last?
• Flintshire (2) - Andy Sutton Blows Whistle
• Flintshire (3) - Andy Sutton tribunal
• Flintshire (4) - Andy Sutton wins
• Flintshire (5) - Andy Sutton, public interest report
• Flintshire (6) - Letter to First Minister (Oct 2002)
• Flintshire (6a) - Another Letter to First Minister (July 2003)
• Flintshire (7) - Photo of FTC Banner in Wales
• Poor management in Wrexham social services - a Personal Story (April 2003)
• Wrexham- bullying? (01-08-03)

WAR & GOVERNMENT

• LINK http://english.aljazeera.net
• LINK http://www.truthout.org

• The Continuing Significance of the 1980s Clive Ponting Case                                               
• John Pilger Blows Whistle on USA/UK and destruction of Iraq (Feb 2003)
• Gulf War syndrome: Tulane whistleblower, and a Poem
• NATO soldiers blow whistle on depleted uranium
• Ex-soldier blows whistle on chemical warfare experiments
• American Diplomat blows whistle on lies about Iraq (2003)
• Blair war crime?
• Kucinich demands WMD evidence
• Israeli conscientious objectors (refuseniks)
• David Kelly Iraq 
• UK Civil Contingencies Bill is a threat to democracy 
• US soldier Jeremy Hinzman says No! 

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• Paul van Buitenen blows whistle on European Commission
• Railway Disaster whistleblowers

 

ETHICS IN BUSINESS

• The Tobin Tax: Global Welfare Tax on Money Speculators?
• Information about 'Corporate Watch'
• Corporate responsibility initiatives - links
• Update 2 on corporate social responsibility
• Whistle blown on McDonald's lie to Hindus (2001)
• Boycott ESSO for destroying climate
• Resisting the Globalisation of Greed - real ideas
• Enron whistleblower

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• Colonial mutual insurance - FtC exposes malpractice
• Corporate manslaughter - reforming the law (Part A)
• Corporate manslaughter - reforming the law (Part B)
• FtC demands 'corporate killing' law
• Blow the whistle on price fixing and survive
• Plumbers - will they ever be publicly accountable?
• Link to the Sustainability2000 Project website
• AA1000: A Global Standard for Ethical Performance - FtC's caveats

 

A WORLD of CONSCIENCE  Archive

• USA 1997: Professor blows whistle on depleted uranium and loses job
• USA 2001: New York terrorism - no one listened to whistleblower
• USA, Afghanistan & Terrorism - FtC Statement, Moslem Poem
• USA 2002: Three women whistleblowers are TIME "Persons of the year" 2002
• RUSSIA 1999: Whistleblower Aleksandr Nikitin acquitted
• RUSSIA 2001: Whistleblower Grigory Pasko arrested again
• CANADA: Nurse blows whistle on baby deaths
• CANADA: drugs safety whistleblowers
• AUSTRALIA 1990s: Ten whistleblowing cases
• HONG KONG:  Link to whistleblower site
• ISRAEL: Israeli Government & human rights
• JAPAN: whistleblowing on AIDS misinformation
• INDIA: Journalist exposes corruption

Opinions and Comments

• Beyond the blame culture? - Chris Clode (Aug 2001)
• Valuing employees - Anne Burge (1999)
• Letter to Blair - do not attack Iraq - Geoff Hunt (Dec 2002)