Tag Archives: Paul Cardin

Paul Cardin appears on www.bastionradio.com

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Wirral In It Together

6th April 2015 The other day I was invited onto Bastion Radio, a Bristol-based up and coming internet service run by Mike West and Kai Holloway. They’d seen a few of my tweets and posts and were interested in hearing all about … Continue reading →

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Rotherham abuse. Which 53 councils shut up shop when people came knocking?

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

Starting in January 2011, I carried out a broad ranging survey of 345 English local authorities (local councils) which was aimed at discovering totals for compromise agreements (settlement agreements) drawn up by each council between 2006 and 2011. Compromise agreements … Continue reading →

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No public consultation. Foreseeably and avoidably, innocent persons could be injured or killed.

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

*****Yes, that’s how serious this is… innocent persons could be seriously injured or killed, because Wirral Council have switched off hundreds of street lights without genuine public consultation or internal scrutiny…  now,  they’re locked into denial and seeking to conceal their actions***** 30th … Continue reading →

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UPDATED – Disability discrimination. The DLA Piper tribunal decision cannot be appealed

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

This is an update to a recent post I made here: https://wirralinittogether.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/wirral-council-wins-in-court-vulnerable-people-lose-again/ Near to the end of the blog post, I promised to contact the Judge, Melanie Carter, to highlight some concerns and to see if her decision could be … Continue reading →

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Victory for Wirral In It Together. We defeat Wirral Council – again

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

25th June 2014 Freedom of Information.  Another victory over Wirral Council’s legal “team”. Yesterday, an email came in from WhatDoTheyKnow.com … https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/with_compromise_agreements_not_b#incoming-532480 This response is another calculated exercise in minimisation and a muddying of the water, couched in the blandest and … Continue reading →

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Wirral Council Wins at Tribunal. Vulnerable People Lose.

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

9th June 2014 Below is a report from Local Government Lawyer, explaining a recent First Tier Information Tribunal ruling in favour of Wirral Council: Local Government Lawyer report on ruling …from which the inconvenient phrase ‘disability discrimination’ has been omitted. And … Continue reading →

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Hopeless. A distracted journo and a mayor with a dodgy history – in the clear

Posted on May 25, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

I was tweeting tonight.  Nothing unusual about that on a Sunday – or any other day that ends in a ‘y’. Anyway, somebody popped onto my timeline with the following: It’s safe ground, for a journo or anyone else to have … 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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The Rock ‘n Troll years. Today, I journey back to 2012… EPIC

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

This brief encounter with my first and only internet troll started way back in May 2012.  “eVirtual_Assist’ is my former Twitter user name.  I’d been up on Twitter for a while, doing what I do, exposing the never-ending scandal and … Continue reading →

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#FoI Act – Arguing against ‘Confidentiality’ and ‘Commercial Confidence’ exemptions

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

Wirral Council’s disability discrimination ~ found in 2010 by the Equality and Human Rights Commission First ICO Decision Notice Second ICO Decision Notice The following requests were sent to Wirral Council almost a year ago, but were never answered.  It has taken … Continue reading →

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