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Ombudsman criticises council after finding woman was unable to spend as much time with dying husband after he was moved to “cheaper” care placement
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Ombudsman criticises council after poor practice led to disabled boy missing out on education and support
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Ombudsman criticises council after telling family of woman with dementia to change care home when her money ran out
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Ombudsman criticises council after vulnerable man left at risk of poor care for 18 months
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Ombudsman criticises council and contractor after people "may have been denied right to challenge parking tickets in court"
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Ombudsman criticises council for “significant failings” under Equality Act that exacerbated poor mental health of resident
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Ombudsman criticises council for excluding father from child protection process, “unjustifiably” identifying him as person who abuses alcohol
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Ombudsman criticises council for failing to determine village green application made 11+ years ago
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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 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 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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