Children's Services in Cornwall face government intervention as a result of the recent Ofsted report which highlighted safeguarding as a particular issue for Cornwall Council. This latest development in a depressing story was broken by the BBC and has already led to one Councillor asking why he had to learn the news from a broadcaster rather than from the local authority he is actually a member of.
Why indeed? A media obsession and a lack of basic communication with their own members seem to be early themes of the new administration, in spite of the Leader's commitment to "transparency and openness" as one of his top priorities in his opening address to Council back in June. Alex Folkes, on his 'A Lanson Boy' blog highlights a number of other major instances (new governance arrangements for Newquay Airport, the way 'Scrutiny' works and the Council's new Economic Green Paper) all of which demonstrate that, while the new Conservative administration likes to talk about openness, in the end Tories pretty much end up behaving like, well, Tories I suppose.
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