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You and Yours: Care Home Visiting, Black Hair, Data Sharing

29/11/2021

Care Home Visiting, Black Hair, Data Sharing

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Care Home Visiting, Black Hair, Data Sharing

Care home visiting restrictions. First TV advert for black hair. Data sharing complaints.

The woman not allowed to visit her dying husband in a care home. The first TV advert for black hair products. Complaints that people's details being sold without their consent.

The Government has updated care home visiting guidance and says there are now no nationally set restrictions on friends and family visiting their loved ones. Up until the end of last week, there have been restrictions on people visiting care homes for 21 months due to the pandemic. But even when government guidelines allowed almost no visiting, there were still exceptions for the relatives of people who were dying. We speak to a woman who was denied the right to visit her dying husband in a care home. We also hear from Helen Wildbore, director of the Relatives and Residents Association and Harriet Harman, chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, a cross party group of MPs.

Black British women spend around £168 million pounds a year on hair care products- an estimated 10% of national hair care spend. Yet it was only this month that the UK's first TV advert for black hair care products popped up on our screens.  We speak to Rachael Twumasi-Corson, CEO of Afrocenchix, the company behind the advert, and Julian Douglas from BRiM - Black Representation in Marketing.

We look again at complaints that data protection rules aren't stopping people's details being sold and shared without their consent.  We find out more about why the credit reference agency, Experian, is appealing an enforcement notice from the regulator. Experian say they aren't doing anything wrong and the ruling by the Information Commissioner's Office goes beyond legal requirements. We speak to Lucy Purdon from Privacy International, a charity that investigates how data is generated and used. It brought the complaint to the regulator, that led to a two year investigation and the enforcement order that Experian doesn't accept.




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