Bristol City Council is facing mounting pressure to hold an external inquiry into its staff monitoring the social media of parents with disabled children.
A newly published internal report has cleared the council of wrongdoing, after concerns were raised about council workers collating a dossier of parents who criticised special educational needs and disability (SEND) provision in Bristol. But the report has already been slammed by councillors and parents as the “bureaucracy marking its own homework”.
The social media monitoring was revealed after council emails were leaked in July, leading to calls for an external inquiry. But council chiefs asked for time to first establish the facts themselves, leading to the new report which was published on Friday, September 2.
