Whether OD can turn this around may be signified by the openness of the "new" situation.
For too long information and disinformation has been strictly regulated - this is the stuff that has been the fuel of complaint and argument and yet the minutes of meetings have been held back and severely redacted [admittedly by the WYPCC not NPAS] so that sensible critique has been muted. The Annual Reports under recent management have been a joke, the first under Whitehouse gave out a broad brush of information and then it headed downhill as statistics were buried. The latest suggestion is that the operation was only born when Humberside finally joined the organisation so there is no need to issue statistics.
Whether the organisation comes out of its Cold War on information and pushes out the missing minutes and statistics will at least be an indicator of faith in the future. They may also prove that the suppression was largely the fault of top management not simply a suitable place to place the blame.
With so many intelligent people kept so long in this suppressed state the question remains whether anyone remembers how to do the job properly. All the people who questioned authority were progressively culled and some were never taken on-board simply because it was known they would never 'behave'. That's right isn't it Tigerfish?
Is it safe?