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http://nationalcan.ning.com/

This organisation is massively valuable and a boon to everyone involved in any concerns about community action. Don’t miss it.

I’ve just posted this on their forum on Whistleblowing:

I'm sorry I missed the webinars but we need to keep this important subject alive. As one of the inaugural members of Freedom to Care and the presenter of the social work case for BASW at the Freedom to Care Parliamentary launch in 1992, I'm very concerned that we should remember that organisation and its founder, Geoff Hunt, who did some amazing work (in parallel with Public Concern at Work) fighting for recognition of real protection for whistleblowers. Freedom to Care was thrown into the universal layby bin around 2005 but luckily the main website (which grew faster than Topsy) was archived by the British Museum. I do see though, that a new clean and simple website called Freedom to Care is alive and well at http://www.freedomtocare.org/ Perhaps it's Geoff. The original can be seen at: http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/114181/source/alpha We had hundreds of members from all over the country. There must be some of those in Natcan.

Heddwch.

Mike.

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