When Nicola Sturgeon became First Minister of Scotland she said:
“I intend that we will be an open and accessible Government” (26 November 2014)
On the Front page of the Times of the 7th July 2017 was a report by the Scottish Health Correspondent, Helen Puttick that outlined the considerable efforts, made behind closed doors, of senior civil servants working for the Scottish Government to “tone down” this Report by Audit Scotland.
Further pressure was made to influence the Audit Scotland Report:
In considering the findings of this FOI inquiry, the Editor of the Times said that “the public deserve to know the true story on NHS funding and not an edited official tale”
The Civil Service Code of Conduct for Scotland outlines these core values:
These core values are what the public should expect from its civil servants if they are to fulfil the intention of Scotland’s First Minister.
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