Thursday, May 04, 2006

Prescott to be "Retrained"

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister announced today that it would be reorganied and procedures changed following allegations of bullying. A spokesman said: "A retraining programme is in place." Has the Deputy Prime Minister signed up? More HERE. You couldn't make this stuff up.

A Direct extract from the report, in case any of you think I'm making this up...

Recommendation 16: The Department should take steps immediately to reinforce the message that bullying and intimidation is unacceptable. It should ensure that all staff are aware of the procedures for reporting unfair treatment and that all staff are confident such reports will be taken seriously. ODPM does not tolerate bullying or discrimination, and takes this issue very seriously. A programme of skills and awareness training has already been put in place for all senior and middle managers, to ensure that the organisation creates a positive climate for all staff. This is in addition to ensuring that the right procedures are in place to deal with cases where staff feel they are not treated with dignity and respect.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The question that nees to be asked is: "Is Prescott trainable?"

Or are NuLabour just wasting more money on an eyecatching initiative?

RM

Anonymous said...

Credit to whoever decided to stick the Prescott picture up in that article and caption it 'The department says it takes harassment of staff "very seriously"'.

Anonymous said...

Retraining? Sounds like 're-education'.
Always knew NuLabour were into Cambodia 1975 stuff.

Let us all welcome the Year Zero.

Anonymous said...

A great Parliamentary question for any researchers reading would be to ask whether this will apply to government ministers

Anonymous said...

It's good to hear the ODPM is acting decisively in the wake of recent events to protect those in its department who are most vulnerable to bullying, harassment and snide sexual remarks -- remarks such as "is that a cocktail sausage in your lunch box, John, or are you just pleased to see me?"