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Gangmasters, Predators, Badgers

The Gangmasters Licensing Authority holds its first national conference amid claims it does not have enough funding to adequately protect vulnerable workers. With Charlotte Smith.

The national body set up to monitor and regulate gangmasters will hold its first conference later today, amid claims that it doesn't have enough funding to adequately protect vulnerable workers. The Gangmasters Licensing Authority was set up in 2004 in the wake of the Morecambe Bay cockle picking disaster, when 23 Chinese workers drowned on the sands. Today licensed gangmasters will be asked to comment on a review of licensing regulations.
And we hear from the British Pest Control Association about the control of rats, at the start of a week of reports about pests and predators.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally Challoner.

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  • Mon 2 Mar 201505:45

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