On 2 June 2026, Mind, Mencap and the National Autistic Society responded to a Supreme Court ruling by calling it “the biggest rollback of disability rights in a generation”. Most…
Posts tagged as “Public Interest”
The day after Vickrum Digwa was sentenced to life for murdering Henry Nowak, a prosecutor stood up in Southampton Magistrates’ Court and asked for more time, because the Crown hadn’t…
Reasonable adjustments are often explained in very broad terms. Applicants are told that support is available, or that an employer is committed to inclusion, but they’re not always given a…
FOI disclosures from West Yorkshire Police and Avon and Somerset Police show a clear difference between recorded policing outcomes at Leeds Festival and Glastonbury between 2022 and 2025. Glastonbury is…
The Information Commissioner’s Office appears to have been considering ways to reduce the pressure Freedom of Information requests place on public authorities and on the ICO itself. A disclosure reported…
Apprenticeships are being promoted as one answer to Britain’s jobs problem. Records from the closure of JB Skills Training show why the less polished cases deserve closer scrutiny. Apprenticeships are…
The North East Combined Authority told an FOI requester in March that it held no recorded information within scope of a request about the proposed “Great North Olympics”. That answer…
West Yorkshire Police recorded 203 arrests and 3,088 officer deployments at Leeds Festival between 2022 and 2025, newly disclosed Freedom of Information data shows. (Source: The Freedom of Information request,…
Public bodies logged almost 100,000 recruitment adjustment requests, but many couldn’t say how many were actually provided. A Freedom of Information investigation by The Reasonable Adjustment asked 15 public authorities…
Related, and newer Broad Street Arrest: West Midlands Police Cleared Their Own Officer, Then Asked Everyone to Stop Watching Another Knockout Audit clip, another viral pile-on. Footage of an arrest…