Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 2/12/22 – #FOIFriday
This week's FOI Friday is a mixture of serious stories highlighting the pressure the NHS is under and looking into the lack of action on police who send offensive messages.…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 25/11/22 – #FOIFriday
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas #FOI requests in this week's FOIFriday. It may be cutting it a bit fine for sending in your festive questions and getting…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 18/11/22 – #FOIFriday
One in 10 people in the UK has used FOI to try and get information they thought would be useful to themselves, their community or wider society, according to a…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 11/11/22 – #FOIFriday
There are some public bodies you can send a Freedom of Information request to but you might not realise you can. Possibly because you wouldn’t think they were public bodies.…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 4/11/22 – #FOIFriday
While this (mostly) weekly series is aimed at giving you inspiration for Freedom of Information requests you could send to, hopefully, generate some interesting stories, this is a reminder that…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 28/10/22 – #FOIFriday
The phrase that launched a thousand FOIs - "XXX has not said how much it spent on YYY". You know if your local police force, council, hospital trust, or even…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 21/10/22 – #FOIFriday
This is your weekly encouragement to send the FOI. Sending a Freedom of Information request can help uncover more details - final reports are often summaries of lots of information…