Local Government Chronicle
Ben Worthy
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Transparency is many things at once
30-Apr-2013
Freedom of Information expert Ben Worthy asks what do we all mean by transparency? -
Open data: in need of senior support
7 March 2013
FoI expert Ben Worthy discusses the impact of open data on councils -
FoI: from the topline to the subtext
24 January 2013
FoI expert Ben Worthy discusses the future of the Freedom of Information Act and asks whether the devil is in the details? -
FoI: useful tool not universal panacea
8 November 2012
FoI expert Ben Worthy discusses the future of transparency and the price of accountability -
Working better in harder times
27 September 2012
Freedom of Information expert Ben Worthy explores the future of transparency in his latest briefing column -
Open data 'a very local revolution'
26 July 2012
Getting consistency and co-operation across departments and authorities will be very difficult -
FoI progress setting the pace of change
14 June 2012
The worry is that the threat of an FOI request means that politicians and officials find all sorts of creative ways to avoid an audit trail. -
'Senior sceptics' pose transparency risk
19 April 2012
Politicians often fall out of love with transparency quite quickly: their enthusiasm for openness wanes once in power -
Apathy threat to transparency drive
1 March 2012
Transparency needs to be pushed by national and local leaders and it needs two things politicians often lack: time and resources -
A revolution with little impact - yet
10 November 2011
It is unlikely to lead to very much armchair auditing from the public as most people won’t have the time or the patience to scroll through long Excel sheets -
Councils are showing us the money, but who's looking?
15-Aug-2011
Freedom of Information expert Ben Worthy gives LGC his take on the impact of the addition of spending data to the transparency agenda. -
Have we forgotten the spirit of the act?
20 January 2011
Few officials feel FoI is helping local members of the public
