Transparency
All the latest news, briefings and opinion on transparency
Latest News
Lambeth attracts DCLG fury for defying senior pay rules
Borough will not ask full council to approve £100k salaries
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Barnet and Manchester in FOI probe
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Mutuals' pay disclosure 'an issue for councils'
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‘Confidential’ peer report won't be published
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Pickles looks to tighten transparency rules
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'Be selective about new transparency rules'
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LGA to assess transparency costs
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Transparency costs 'should be assessed'
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Maude ‘sceptical’ over cost of publishing data
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Tribunal orders Lambeth to restore records
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Local data releases 'not comparable', complains NAO
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Four rapped over FoI sloth
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Bolton ruling likely to set precedent for disclosure of business interests
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Council told to publish Dr Who letters
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Expert hopeful over FoI review
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Whitehall ‘mean-median muddle’ poses data difficulty for councils
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Armchair auditors set on unions
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Ministers criticised as 'media evidence base' drives decision-making
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Taxpayers' Alliance research questioned
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Survey details FOI impact on councils
Latest Opinion
Inside Out - Freedom to be ignorant
If there is transparency about contracts this can allow us to get better value for money through competition
Empowering communities to engage in shaping services
We have to empower our communities to be engaged in shaping their own services
Latest Briefings
Transparency is many things at once
Freedom of Information expert Ben Worthy asks what do we all mean by transparency?
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Open data: in need of senior support
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FoI: from the topline to the subtext
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Double standards on transparency
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FoI: useful tool not universal panacea
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Working better in harder times
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Open data 'a very local revolution'
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Automate for effortless improvement
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FoI progress setting the pace of change
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Open data bridging hard-to-reach gap








