Legislation is being discussed in Parliament to make it illegal for registered counsellors or psychotherapists to help people with unwanted homosexual attractions.
The Counsellors and Psychotherapists Regulation Bill contains a clause stating that a code of ethics for all registered therapists "must include a prohibition on gay to straight conversion therapy".
The bill's author, the Labour MP for Swansea West Geraint Davies, has said in Parliament that the intention of the bill is to better regulate an industry that is at present dangerously unmonitored, and therefore has the potential to do a great deal of damage.
Mr Davies has said: "This year a million Britons will seek psychotherapy, but currently anyone can set themselves up as a psychotherapist with no training or recourse for the patient when something goes wrong.
"This gives a free rein to those offering bogus treatments like conversion therapy. It's a scandal that someone can offer this discredited, so-called treatment and still call themselves a professional therapist." Keep reading
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