FOI ideas this week look at high turnover in children's social care, police using force on teens, prison contraband, and the rise of cryptocurrency crime. Struggling social care The council…
If you regularly send Freedom of Information requests for stories, you may have experienced something like this. You make your request, start writing your story, but when you go to…
You can make Freedom of Information requests about pretty much anything. That's the whole point. It allows anyone to ask about anything from any public body (doesn't mean they hold…
Public bodies that don't answer Freedom of Information requests on time are under scrutiny. The ICO, this week, issued an official 'enforcement notice' to Shropshire Council for failing to answer…
It's getting harder to get information out of the Government. Last year, fewer than two in five Freedom of Information requests were answered in full. Central Government departments and related…
Chase that late Freedom of Information request. It's official, you're not being unreasonable. That view comes from a recent First Tier Tribunal decision. The Information Rights Tribunal ruled South Yorkshire…
This week in FOI: Everything is on fire...and the opposition parties have noticed. (Also it's, like, two weeks to the local elections. That probably also has something to do with…