Author: Doug Paulley

Wheelchair user and residential care user, sometimes thorn in the side of authorities.

The Great North Run for the Calvert Trust Kielder

Many will know that I generally don’t like disability charities, in particular Leonard Cheshire Disability, as you may guess from various pages on my blog. The big disability charities institutionalise us, take our voice, consume our resources and use our language whilst oppressing us. As disabled people, we get portrayed as powerless objects of pity,…

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Information Commissioner’s Office’s internal guidance

These are the Information Commissioner’s Office’s policy Lines to Take and other guidance used by ICO caseworkers and policy workers when assessing issues under various information governance regimes. They are broadly split into three sets: Freedom of Information Act / Environmental Information Regulations Line to Take documents Advice Service Line to Take Documents Casework Advice…

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“promptly and in any event…”

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 section 10(1) says: a public authority must comply with section 1(1) promptly and in any event not later than the twentieth working day following the date of receipt. In their guidance on time limits for compliance with the Freedom of information Act, the Information Commissioner’s Office maintains that the…

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