(Post made at 2245 BST on 25 Sep 2017 in a personal capacity. Please see here for important background and disclosure of interests).
In my opinion a
flawed complaints system (which is being used to silence criticism rather than
address it) is preventing accountability for poor practices. In what way is the College accountable for
what I believe to be very poor ethical behaviour, if it accepts the results of
a manifestly flawed (and itself unethical, because of incorrect statements that
no witnesses came forward to support complaints) "independent"
complaints investigation? Where is the
accountability and ethics in the College refusing to allow an appeal despite
the clear flaws in the investigation?
Where is the accountability in the College refusing to allow my concerns
to be passed on to its Board? How is the College's refusal to investigate items
complained about not a violation of its Complaints Policy? Aren't all these
things further evidence of unethical behaviour and a failure of culture, governance and leadership at the Bournemouth and Poole College?
Welcome to my blog in which I aim to write about music and in particular about matters that may be of interest to any members of the Society for Wessex Young Musicians (SWYM, of which I was Chairman from Nov 2012 until 4 Feb 2017), and to anyone interested in the Centre for Wessex Young Musicians (CWYM) which is part of the Bournemouth and Poole College ("The College"). The most well known part of the CWYM is the Wessex Youth Orchestra. Parents of CWYM pupils are automatically members of SWYM.
Monday, 25 September 2017
Bournemouth and Poole College: a failure of governance because of a lack of accountability and little apparent concern for ethics
Labels:
BPCollege,
complaints,
culture,
FoIA,
Governance,
integrity,
transparency,
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