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These initiatives were driven by Baroness O'Loan, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.
A Bill to lower the gestational time limit for abortion from twenty-four weeks to twenty-two weeks.
Baroness O'Loan has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting
Abortion providers are required to have effective arrangements in place to safeguard children and vulnerable adults, in compliance with the Department’s required standard operating procedures for the approval of independent sector places for termination of pregnancy in England. Providers must ensure that all staff are trained in recognising the signs of potential abuse and coercion in adult women, and how to respond.
In addition, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has published national safeguarding guidance for under 18-year-olds accessing early medical abortion services, which will ensure that robust safeguarding processes are embedded across all abortion services. We expect all providers to have due regard to the RCPCH safeguarding guidance.
Under section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998, the police have an obligation to comply with the ECHR in all aspects of their work. Officer training is a matter for individual forces, which are independent of the Government.