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Ombudsman criticises council for failing to properly involve complainant in assessment and support planning process
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Ombudsman criticises council for failing to respond to restaurant nuisance complaints
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Ombudsman criticises council for failure to consider relaxing local connection criterion for domestic abuse victim
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Ombudsman criticises council for housing 17 year old on campsite
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Ombudsman criticises council for implementing unwritten policy to exclude tenants of housing association from joining housing register
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Ombudsman criticises council for issuing apology letter referring to dead man by wrong name
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Ombudsman criticises council for leaving visually impaired man without support to access the community
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Ombudsman criticises council for mother of 6 left in bed and breakfast accommodation
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Ombudsman criticises council for not providing alternative schemes for care home fees
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Ombudsman criticises council for reducing care package of autistic man because of financial pressures
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Ombudsman criticises council for standard of safeguarding investigation
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Ombudsman criticises council for stopping payments for disabled woman’s care without organising alternative
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Ombudsman criticises council for taking “too long” to carry out recommendations issued following two education complaints
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Ombudsman criticises council for way it allocated Covid grants to businesses
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Ombudsman criticises council over “flawed” school transport policy
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Ombudsman criticises council over “misleading” housing allocation policy
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Ombudsman criticises council over allocation of 15-minute care calls
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Ombudsman criticises council over delay in safeguarding investigation
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Ombudsman criticises council over failure to have regard to human rights of man left in care home away from family for five months
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Ombudsman criticises council over failure to support vulnerable mother properly
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