Founded 1989. UK's leading charity on eating disorders supporting 1.6 million affected by eating disorders. BEAT campaigns on their behalf providing information to the public about such disorders. BEAT told the Inquiry that papers often printed irresponsible pictures of emaciation. It supported regulation of the media in order to stop this happening.
Founded 2004. American online social-media and networking-service company based in Menlo Park, California. Richard Beecroft Allan, Facebook's director of public policy for Europe at the time of the Inquiry, gave evidence and was questioned about policy concerning inter alia pornography, bullying, violence and hate speech, as well as on Facebook's policies on removal of posted comments.
Formed in 2007, the National Policing Improvement Agency was a non-departmental public body in the UK, established to support the police by providing expertise in such areas as information technology, information sharing and recruitment. Karl Wissgott, Head of National Police Computer Services, gave evidence. The agency was dissolved in 2013.
