Paul Wheeler is director of the Political Skills Forum

摘要

One of the interesting outcomes from the News International hacking scandal is that we will learn a lot more about who our Prime Minister and cabinet meet in the future. It is amazing to contrast this level of transparency with the governance models being encouraged by the same government for the delivery of public services. Housing associations, increasingly the sole providers of social housing, are currently exempt from the Freedom of Information Act Academies and free schools have little obligation to report on their activities to the wider community. Indeed one academy threatened legal proceedings when its accounts were queried.