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Council cracks down on snail farm business rates avoidance schemes
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Council creates standalone monitoring officer roles as part of new operating model
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Council criticised after care home banned daughter from visiting mother
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Council criticised after heavily pregnant woman left to ‘sofa surf’
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Council criticised after social work failings deny parents time with dying baby
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Council criticised by Ombudsman after girl left without proper education for nine months
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Council criticised by Ombudsman for failing to complete all recommendations as agreed in statutory complaint process
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Council criticised for causing mother “avoidable distress” after delays in EHC plan process
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