Well - a bit like the Fit & Proper person then...

There are those who`ve assumed that staff-cutting by one large Park

Home operator ( including those who became self-employed ) might well have been to do with the rising costs of employing people....

But then again, it might also, or otherwise, be a consequence of the definition of a large company ( more than 250 employees and a turnover of more than £18 million ) as applied under the  "Failure to Prevent Fraud" clause introduced under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023., which makes large organisations liable if they fail to prevent fraud by employees or agents for the company's benefit. ( I think I know a few `employees` who`d quite neatly fit the bill )

I often wonder who comes up with such legislation – where it`s obvious that if an unfit person is removed from the registration list as defined under the 2013 Act , they can simply be replaced by another ad infinitum, rendering the legislation itself as unfit – whilst limiting  the `failure to prevent fraud` to companies with 250 employees or more, implies that if you have 1000 employees, all you have to do is to form five new companies, each employing 200 people still doing the same job - so escaping the prospect of prosecution

Of course, I could be wrong – but I suspect that the vast majority of fraud committed within the UK is down to the business employing far less that 250 people or even none at all - perhaps exampling yet another piece of largely ineffectual legislation that`ll probably never be enforced.

T.T.