Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:JULIAN BELL HONESTY TEST UPDATE | |
Posted by: | Andrew Farmer | |
Date/Time: | 30/07/20 09:12:00 |
Mr Havelock, you are quite right. There are possibilities beyond the Council. Unfortunately, they are no better. The last time I dealt with the LGO, I put a number of unresolved complaints to them. They ignored the most serious ones. The LGO does not have to accept complaints. If it ignores them, however, it has to explain why. It failed to do that in this case and so failed in its legal obligation. I made a freedom of information request and it yielded a “diary” of the way the affair had been handled. One of the officers of the LGO itself had made the same criticism of the way the matter was being handled as I had. When it was dealt with higher up, this was supressed and the LGO found the LGO blameless. As the Council had not dealt with the complaints in the first place, I took the complaints back to the Council. This had a benefit: Helen Harris, the senior legal officer, inadvertently gave away that she had colluded with Alison Reynolds, who has charge of the complaints procedure, and allowed Reynolds to supress a complaint against herself! As Reynolds and Harris have control of the complaints procedure, who is going to investigate complaints against them? I asked the Deputy Councillor Leader, Yvonne Johnson. She has been completely unhelpful. The Council and the LGO are organisations of the kind excoriated in Parliament in a speech by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on 21.1.18, organisations whose staff collude in cover-up to protect one another and betray the public interest in favour of their own. No surprise with Bell as Council Leader and Najserak as CEO. |