1st April 2012, 03:56 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:If there is a public service that is discriminating against one section of its public to the benefit of another, isn't that grounds for complaint to the local government Ombudsman....It seems to me that its within your power to solve this problem very easily!
Sadly would be very difficult in practice to prove, since the said HER and unit would inevitably close ranks and deny everything (for two reputedly entirely seperate organisations there's a frightening interchangeability in the authorship of product from the two....). Fairly annoying when information in the 'public domain' is in practice unuseable since, having paid yer ?80 or whatever to even get in the building, you can't eg. photocopy the plan of what someone else has dug in the next field, sometimes even the same features! Taking notes does have its limits, particularly where graphics are concerned. They refuse to copy anything if you can't produce a written note from the author/copyright holder, which is (a) total b****cks legally, and (b) often tricky when the author is dead, untraceable or the organisation has folded. At the other end of the scale, another HER recently emailed me a 500 page report! Consistency, errrr....