Annual Reports
PC&PE: In a report published recently - FCO's Human Rights Work in 2011 - the Foreign Affairs Committee argues that Ministers should be bolder in acknowledging contradictions between the UK’s interests overseas and its human rights values.
It is inevitable that the UK will have strategic, commercial or security-related interests overseas which have the potential to conflict with its human rights work, says the Foreign Affairs Committee. The Government should not be trying to assert that the two can co-exist freely: it should instead be explaining publicly its judgments on how to balance them in particular cases.
CIPD: Ensuring benefits packages are engaging & motivating has become a greater concern for reward professionals than attracting & retaining staff. The latest Reward risk survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) reveals that ‘attraction & retention of key employees’ has fallen out of the top 10 list of concerns for the first time since the survey began in 2010, while ‘increasing pensions costs’ has crept in to the top 10 for the first time.
APA: The Association of Police Authorities has issued a statement in response to the publication of the latest IPCC figures on police complaints in England & Wales.
