Member

The other aspect is that there are plenty of other private mediation services as well—recognising, frankly, that ACAS is still a publicly funded body and can be expected to deal with only a certain amount of these aspects of conciliation. I would like to understand further exactly who is going to get this money at the end. Obviously, it will be through the initiation of the worker wanting advice, but will it be law firms, trade unions or new enterprises? I do not mind but, again, this does not make sense to me: if we are prepared to do that for those sorts of bodies, why is it that we are not prepared to look at private mediation services, which exist and are used extensively today?