Sep. 19 2024
Source Page: Reports regarding Ending Conversion Practices consultation: FOI releaseFound: The group expressed an understanding for parents wanting to protect their child from bullying or not
Sep. 17 2024
Source Page: Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council: commissioner's reportFound: staff and partners have frequently used similar words to describe the culture, including ‘fear’ , ‘bullying
Sep. 17 2024
Source Page: Health briefing packs ahead of Scottish Parliament health committee: FOI releaseFound: coincided with a letter from a PA to Caroline Lamb, DG Health & Social Care, highlighting perceived bullying
Sep. 17 2024
Source Page: Breaches of the Ministerial Code: FOI releaseFound: I found that intimidation and bullying was first and foremost in the minds of those in charge of the
Sep. 17 2024
Source Page: Recruitment of Expert Working Group on Ending Conversion Practices members: FOI releaseFound: embedding LGBT inclusive education across the school curricu lum in order to promote equality, reducing bullying
Sep. 16 2024
Source Page: Independent investigation of the National Health Service in England. Including summary letter from Lord Darzi to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. 163p.Found: there were “too many reports to ignore of poor behavioural cultures and incidences of discrimination, bullying
Asked by: John Glen (Conservative - Salisbury)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 31 July 2024 to Question 1244 on Ministers: Training, whether those induction briefings included guidance on (a) anti-bullying, (b) allyship and (c) unconscious bias.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
All Ministers have received induction briefings to support them in their ministerial duties. Typically, this would include information on their areas of responsibility, ethics and standards, security, managing public money and legislation.
Asked by: Eagle, Tim (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - Highlands and Islands)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many incidents of bullying have been reported by its civil servants in each year since 2021.
Answered by Forbes, Kate - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Gaelic
As an employer, the Scottish Government is committed to ensuring the workplace is free from bullying, harassment, discrimination and victimisation, where work related concerns, problems or issues can be raised and responded to.
Under the Scottish Government's grievance policy, line managers are expected to deal with concerns about inappropriate behaviour at an early stage and on an informal basis, where appropriate.
The number of formal complaints about bullying reported by civil servants in the Scottish Government since 2021 is provided in the following table:
Number of formal complaints of bullying reported by Scottish Government civil servants | ||||
2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 (from 1 January to 20 August 2024) | Total |
4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
The figures provided in our response to this question only cover staff working in the following core Scottish Government business areas:
Director-General Communities
Director-General Corporate
Director-General Economy
Director-General Education and Justice
Director-General Health and Social Care
Director-General Net Zero
Director-General Scottish Exchequer
Director-General Strategy and External Affairs
Found: Unilateral coercive measures and the bullying of certain countries do not help solve problems, he said
Sep. 12 2024
Source Page: Leicester City Council v Mr John Gibbin: [2024] EAT 138Found: He applied to move to an apprentice role but that was refused and that too, he perceived as being bullying