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Accountability

Post Office Horizon - an accountability failure

Doug Chalmers, 22 January 2024 - Accountability, Ethical standards for providers of public services, Nolan Principles

Bringing in a new IT system to modernise a seriously outdated system is never as straightforward as one hopes. But the catastrophic impact of the Horizon system at the Post Office and the subsequent handling of the problems asks major …

Building a better culture in Parliament

Monisha Shah, 23 November 2017 - Accountability, Ethical standards, MPs, Nolan Principles

...new MPs, new and explicit codes of conduct, and the extraordinary bravery of individual voices in bringing bad behaviour to light, these scandals recur with unedifying regularity. A scandal breaks,...

A new era for public standards regulation?

Gillian Peele, 17 August 2017 - Accountability, Ethical standards, Transparency

...United Kingdom and the United States. What is of interest for those concerned with standards issues is how far in such a climate it is possible to make statements of...

Metro Mayors - high standards will help them deliver

Jane Martin, 18 July 2017 - Accountability, Ethical standards, Local government

...between national and local government in England. As leaders of combined authorities, they take over powers from central government for key policy and strategic issues as wide as transport, housing,...

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