As a regular requester to brighton and hove... I can say...
The system used to work quite well - then the person responsible went on
long term sick leave and it fell apart - I understand she is now back, and
the backlog is being cleared.
However, while in the past a 'proper response' would be generated and then
passed back via the FoI bod - now it seems the council are just sending
'conversational' style replies which are then forwarded as responses
without attributation. FoI is being treated as if its a conversational
question from a resident - instead of part of a legally defined obligation
for openness.
i.e. Around a year ago I asked about top and bottom council earners, and
got a spreadsheet from a department showing the top and bottom - great.
Recently - I asked for an updated copy and got nothing (it may have got
lost in the mess of no-one in charge and/or misdirected replies) rather
than chase/find/trace it - I formulated a new request and outlined of why I
was asking - I got a one paragraph brush off response ('we are not aware of
any compulsory redundancies among the lower paid workers') sent via the FoI
bod, but with no indication of who had drafted the
pathetic, inadequate response (which of course arrived on the very last day
allowed).
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/have_jobsposts_been_lost_as_a_re#outgoing-184068
Currently going to internal review.
I recently discovered that a request I made a few years ago about whether a
process had been audited led to the council instigating an audit the very
next week - something they didn't feel the need to mention in their
response at the time... You just can't trust 'em.
Paul /)/+)
On 16 March 2012 14:31, Matthew Somerville <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 16 Mar 2012, at 13:56, Martin Keegan wrote:
> > In the Brighton case, it's also probably fixable: Jason, how hard
> > would it be to get the council to change its practice?
>
> As Robin already said in this thread on Wednesday: "Yeah, as others have
> said I would guess it’s a problem with the council’s current request
> handling workflow. As it happens we are doing some work with Brighton &
> Hove that will integrate their request handling process better with WDTK,
> so I hope you'll see some improvement in a couple of months in your
> particular case." So as far as I can tell, this is already basically in
> hand.
>
> ATB,
> Matthew
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