Folks - with Purdah there is no defence select committee - so the IDA are influencing defence focused politicians from all parties, working to talk
to the Labour potential front bench team & engaging into the MoD - we wait the new team of what ever flavour
@gregbagwell I and the team are arguing for doing things differently - take the burden off operational commanders and let them focus on operational output - why should a 1* on pre-deployment leave over Christmas be considering a Service Complaint? Is it good for them or the complainint?
@gregbagwell Everyone else has a professionally trained HR staff & an HR department - they deal with grievances in less than 60 days, they support their staff and have a people centric focus, and are ultimately accountable to shareholders - why is defence scared of independent oversight?
@gregbagwell And when that doesn't work then can arbitrate, but defence doesn't have trained HR staff in units or formations to do what corporates that ACAS deal with do -you seem too fixed in the view "we've always done it that way ..." thats the single worst way of keeping ahead of the game
@gregbagwell The positive impact on recruiting and retention alone would save defence millions - the messages the team are getting since the sky documentary, especially from serving personnel tell of real issues - thats just simple fact
@gregbagwell HH Lyons, Wigston, Atherton, HMICFRS all criticise the Service justice system -yet the MoD does nothing about it -a properly constituted IDA would bring disparate elements all funded separately together into one package able to support defence and make it more efficient not less
@gregbagwell Its not - where does providing an ombudsman function for serving personnel and veterans with an ACAS type remit combined with an OFSTED type inspectorate become a wider HR Department? It can complement HR and other areas by acting as a conscience - simple as
@gregbagwell They dont disagree - we agree with their logic but argue that if it isnt outside defence then it can and will be influenced. Thats doesn't stop it working with defence for the greater good - why would defence be scared of such a body?
@gregbagwell No other department of state is held to account purely by its related select committee - most if not all have an independent body providing that input to the department to try and help it work more efficiently - the DSC isnt resourced or designed to do that.