Openness and transparency has been the watchword for many joining the council, so making the recordings available online will go a long way in ensuring the council is being open.

Hopefully, there will be less waffle and grandstanding, unnecessary innuendoes and insults.

Sounds like council meetings could be fun!!!!

Could be good news to have meetings say on uTube , or even streamed on the web ,

Wonder if they are , if more will be agreed outside meetings and less debate in meetings.

Quandary,

That is true Andrew, the public can without permission or are required to inform the council they are recording the meetings.

However, in this case I believe the council will be introducing their own recording equipment, and all meetings will be recorded. Hopefully they will be made available online.

Maybe the next step will be video!!

PC84/16: To approve recordings at meetings

I understood it was law that all public parts of a meeting can be recorded, and it was not upon the council to approve or put any other restrictions upon recording other than those in place for orderly conduct.

Open and honest ?

No idea at the moment. Since we do not have an effective council it is being dealt with by CAPALC.

Apparently the solicitor has suggested it is not in the public interest. Strange you would have thought a bully working in a public area is very much in the public interest.

do we have any expectation as to when the ICO report will be made ? is it a 6 month or 6 hour operation ?

It is written in the public domain that bullying behaviour in the workplace is usually targeted against those who show more competence, popularity, integrity or who challenge – as opposed to targeting those who are likely to protect or enhance the status of a perpetrator.

When we invest our trust and belief in others, it says something about who we are. People understandably do not want to accept bad things about a colleague or friend and may feel foolish or responsible in some way if they do. This might lead to selective closure of our ears and eyes.

Continued denial or playing down the seriousness of the matter even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, probably blocks out the embarrassment and guilt that would otherwise arise and tries to protect the personal reputation of individuals or groups associated with an alleged ‘guilty’ party.

There are of course people who may recognise other’s wrongdoing for exactly what it is, but do not see the seriousness of the issues in the same way as the rest of the public do. These people will believe that the system is flawed – not the wrongdoer.

Whichever is the case here, we have all made our own judgements based on who we are and what we stand for – there’s human beings for you!

Thank you .

The ICO report is paid for by the ICO. They are funded by central government.