2013 July

Serious Untoward Incidents and FOI

Every time something goes wrong in the NHS it creates a paper trail… And that means that investigators can use the Freedom of Information Act to find out exactly what has happened. THE SYSTEM If something happens on a ward … Continue reading

Get the data: organogram of Job Centre Plus

The Department for Work and Pensions has published data about posts in Job Centre Plus. The organogram shows the title, hierarchy and salary of positions in the company. The PDF shown above (click to see full size) is also available … Continue reading

LIVEBLOG: CIJ Summer School

Abbey Hartley and Kristina Kashtanova will be liveblogging throughout the Centre for Investigative Journalism Summer School from Friday to Sunday. Follow her updates below:

Get the data: organogram and staff pay

The Department for Work and Pensions has published data about Senior Civil Service posts, including the title, hierarchy and salary. Information is given on a variety of sectors such as Job Centre Plus, disability, employment, welfare and Directgov. The organogram … Continue reading

Live coverage of the Centre for Investigative Journalism Summer School

Help Me Investigate have sent Abbey Hartley to cover the Centre for Investigative Journalism Summer School, which starts today from 9am. Speakers include former editor of Help Me Investigate Health, Alex Plough, the tax expert John Christensen; FOI specialists Paul Francis and Brendan Montague; and Andrew Jennings, the man behind investigations into the International Olympic Committee and FIFA […]

AUDIO: Accessing European information – #Dataharvest13

European data journalism event #Dataharvest13 kicked off this year with a panel on European information laws. Host Brigitte Alfter kicked off the introductions: listen to ‘Brigitte Alfter introduces #dataharvest13 ’ on Audioboo And the Corporate Europe Observatory talked about their experiences of using information laws to look at lobbying interests: listen to ‘@corporateeurope on lobbying […]

DWP changes “open data” tool after Help Me Investigate raises concerns

The Department for Work and Pensions has promised a series of improvements to an online tool promoted as an example of “open data” after concerns were raised by Help Me Investigate. Stat-Xplore was one of the case studies described in … Continue reading

Get the data: all MPs in the UK

Help Me Investigate has compiled a list of MPs who operate throughout the UK. The list has been scraped from the Parliament website. The dataset shows the name, political party and constituency of all 674 MPs in the UK. In addition to this, a URL link to each MP’s biography has been displayed. This information […]

Get the data: all MPs in the UK

AUDIO: Offshore Leaks at #Dataharvest13

The investigation everyone was talking about at Dutch-Flemish data journalism event #Dataharvest13 was Offshore Leaks: a collaboration between over 80 journalists in dozens of countries on one of the biggest and ugliest data leaks in the history of journalism. The resulting stories on the use of tax havens have made front pages across the world […]