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How DLA Piper LLP came to the aid of abusive Wirral Council in their hour of need

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

26 months (2 years and 2 months) ago, in February 2012, I made an FoI request to Wirral Council, requesting copies of the correspondence that had passed between DLA Piper (Solicitors) and the council during a specific period of external investigator … Continue reading →

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Let’s not lose sight of the bigger picture… #MariaMiller

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

I don’t usually comment on central government issues, much less link to newspapers that I despise, but something dreadful has just happened.  Another fraud committed from on high on the public. Just to rub it in, the crooked Etonian toffs … Continue reading →

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A Director has left Arrowe Park Hospital, but they’re not talking… at least not yet

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

↓ 24 grievances were lodged with management.  THREE employees departed.  Update on this story here… Back on 12th January this year, I placed an FoI request with the trust titled, “Payments to Senior Officers”. The first time news surfaced that Sue Green, wife of … Continue reading →

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Unhelpful ICO response, when a Council gave false information

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

25th March 2014 A while ago, in response to a request from a third party, Wirral Council declared a false total for its number of compromise agreements. The council are standing by the false declaration. The ICO, many months on, … Continue reading →

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HKLSHSW – Austerity Greetings Cards

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

The new combined Mersey Region Authority… Halton Knowsley Liverpool St Helens Sefton Wirral …is putting the finishing touches to a pioneering alternative approach to employee dispute resolution. HKLSHSW Austerity Greetings Cards These are to be rolled out in a timely response to … Continue reading →

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National Audit Office report – Making a Whistleblowing Policy Work

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

This report, a long time in the making, was published today by the National Audit Office: http://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Making-a-whistleblowing-policy-work.pdf One of the recurring themes within it points to a failure by government bodies to correctly acknowledge whistleblowers, to register their issues, to act on … Continue reading →

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Ex Urbe Think Tank Report ~ “Like Pulling Teeth? Freedom of Information in the Liverpool City Region”

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

Here’s a link to the above FoI report, released in February 2014. http://media.wix.com/ugd/440822_0d8989cd1a69415ea85d1a30f49775ac.pdf Not surprisingly, the foreword to the report features the abysmal performance of Wirral Borough Council. I was extremely happy to find that without my prior knowledge, Ex … Continue reading →

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It pays well to train councils in Information Governance / DP / FoI / RIPA

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

…that’s Data Protection / Freedom of Information / Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. Here’s a post I recently sent to this thread on a data / info  blog, which is a collection of thoughts from Tim Turner, a straight talking, … Continue reading →

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How open are Wirral Council about payments above £500 ? Are they OpenlyLocal?

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

According to the  above website, Openly Local, set up in the interests of helping local authorities to “throw the books open” to their paymasters the general public, Wirral Council is a “UK Council with opened up data”. Back in 2010, … Continue reading →

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Some people have said I should show more deference when I tweet the Council Leader

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

Councillor Phil Davies is a shameless, unapologetic, inveterate liar (see here, here, here, here, here, and here).

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