45
is that action and assessment are required all the time. It will be apparent that this present report, provided after seven months experience, is no more than an interim
assessment, but the press wanted reports in days. There has been no question of a measured staff build up and quiet consolidation before public exposure. The whole operation has gone on with the press figuratively, and often literally, in the offices and at our sides. We soon got used to this rather novel experience for civil servants. There is no doubt that this wide
coverage has made the acceptance of C.D.0.s by the public and departments much easier than it would have been had we not had this help.
105.
e have attempted to look at the public coverage of C.D.O.s' activities through the eyes of ordinary people in order to see what image was emerging. At first there was a concentration on personal cases. This is not surprising for if the C.D.C. has had only a day or a week to
get under way it is only possible to take immediate action in some types of personal cases. we were aware that purely social public
engagements were not only liable to be a waste of time and exhausting but also to create a sort of play-boy inage. C.D.0.s have therefore declined much hospitality often offered in good faith and thus, I fear, they may have occasionally given offence. It has not however been possible to decline to attend many functions sponsored by private bodies. These are often important occasions for the organisation, and even though the ceremony may be formal and the speeches of no great significance the leaders will usually have worked closely with the C.D.0. and be
/genuinely
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.