For example: Try researching Gloucestershire Constabulary -'The Worst In The West' - any period but especially the last 50-70 years & see how far you get (likewise Avon & Somerset Constabulary).

@jemmywood.bsky.social @tballam.bsky.social @bristolcitizen.bsky.social @stillawake17.bsky.social (etc)

It’s hard to even express how awful this is.

But I’m going to keep reading about them regardless.

These were not accidents. They were choices. And those choices are indefensible.

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Thats a bit lovely.

Why should money intended to support disabled children be diverted to pay for an inquiry into wrongdoing by council officers and politicians? SEND budgets were never designed to underwrite harm caused by the council itself.

Over and over, councillors stressed that the inquiry must be “kept tight” so as not to “eat into our very precious SEND budget” (Green Cllr Ellie Freeman).
But this framing is insidious.

We’re halfway there.

No. Spying as in literally having staff physically following me around Bristol covertly to see what I say about the council. Then discussing it. And removing EHCP provision as a result. It’s the bit the press never mentions