The Information Commissioner has issued new guidance for universities on FOI compliance.
The guidance has been put together following recommendations made in the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report on the disclosure of data about climate change involving the University of East Anglia. It aims to increase academics’ and researchers’ understanding of freedom of information legislation and to help practitioners to comply with their legal obligations.
The full press release is here, and the guidance here.
I have no time to read this now, so if commenters can take a look that would be good. The tone seems very much on helping universities to obey the law rather than a change in the guidance.