How to be an FOI Officer
FOIMan brings you his latest article for PDP – and news of a new training course for FOI Officers. When I first worked as an FOI Officer back in 2003, setting up procedures and systems …
FOIMan brings you his latest article for PDP – and news of a new training course for FOI Officers. When I first worked as an FOI Officer back in 2003, setting up procedures and systems …
FOIMan highlights a new report from the Campaign for FOI on good practice – and whether London councils are meeting it. The Campaign for FOI has conducted research into the way London local authorities meet …
FOIMan summarises the results of research into the numbers of FOI requests that local authorities in England received in 2016. The new s.45 code of practice requires all public authorities to publish data on their …
FOIMan clarifies the relationship between FOI and local authority meeting rules. Following the awful tragedy that unfolded at Grenfell Tower, there have been a lot of questions asked of the local council, the Royal Borough …
FOIMan reviews the current regulatory state of Town Hall Transparency. Freedom of Information (FOI) regularly receives a bad press from public authorities, and in particular from the Local Government Association, who like to highlight “wacky” …
How would the residents featured in the BBC’s The Street that Cut Everything have fared with FOI?