Sentences with phrase «government ombudsman»

A person may only complain to the Local Government Ombudsman after they have been through the Local Authority complaints procedure.

Our first two letters in this section can be used by family and friends carers to raise two of the matters which were the subject of a finding by the Local Government Ombudsman, dealing with a complaint against Liverpool City Council.

«The Local Government Ombudsman's report shines a light on an area of child welfare which for too long has been neglected by Government and gets the Cinderella treatment by local authorities.

The Local Government Ombudsman has issued a landmark report today slamming the way in which local authorities often treat family and friends carers who are raising children who can not live with their parents.

The Local Government Ombudsman has issued a report today which has found that a foster carer of a young vulnerable child was left without any support for six years as a result of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets wrongly failing to comply with its legal responsibilities.

29.11.2013, Local Government Ombudsman Report slams local authorities for the way family and friends foster carers are treated

01.08.2013, Response from Family Rights Group into the Local Government Ombudsman's finding into complaint no 12 006 209 into Liverpool City Council...

A new Law Society - accredited training course aims to teach lawyers when it would best serve clients to complain to the Local Government Ombudsman instead of going to court.

The management of abusive behaviour between residents of group homes seems to be giving rise to more complaints to the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO).

(iii) threatening the Council with an appeal, costs awards, judicial review or reporting to the local government ombudsman should be done sparingly and with great care.

If necessary, we can refer your case to appeals boards or the Local Government Ombudsman, who have the power to make LEAs reconsider their decisions.

Personal injury awards can not be taken into account by councils carrying out financial assessments, the Local Government Ombudsman has clarified.

We also have experience of acting as independent adjudicators for local, devolved and central government in grievance and non-statutory proceedings, including for the Local Government Ombudsman.

His father was a civil engineer and his mother a civil servant, later a life peer and Labour Minister for Health in Harold Wilson's government and local government ombudsman.

Pupils with special education needs and disabilities (SEND) are missing out on school places because councils are not doing enough to ensure they get the help they need, a report from the local government ombudsman has found.

According to a report from the Local Government Ombudsman, complaints from parents and carers are rising as they struggle to find alternative ways to get children to and from school.

During 2005, Woolas was accused of evading parliamentary questions with regard to public calls for reform of the Local Government Ombudsman in 2005.

• Councils will have to comply with the findings of the local government ombudsman.

The bills are taken from language provided by the State Committee on Open Government, the state's open government ombudsman.

Not exact matches

Business groups have criticised the federal government's latest crackdown on the 457 visa program, following today's announcement that the Fair Work Ombudsman would be given new powers to monitor and

Specific policies include researching methods to improve indoor air quality; instituting a Clean Water Act to ensure Albertans have safe drinking water; protecting provincial parks and ecological reserves; requiring government to meet high environmental standards in their operations; requiring Ecological Assessments for all large projects in the province; and establishing an Alberta environmental ombudsman and elected Ecological Impact Assessment Review Panels to monitor environmental impacts and halt projects.

Few Glendal Foods employees had been members of the National Union of Workers (which covers some food manufacturing) until August, when a complaint was made to the union by Ms Nguyen, who also contacted the federal government's Fair Work Ombudsman, which in turn referred her to WorkSafe.

Although the code provided wide exemptions for disclosure and the Ombudsman's rulings were non-binding, governments complied with them in every instance until 2001.

The Public Advocate also serves as an ombudsman for city government, providing oversight for city agencies, investigating citizens» complaints about city services and making proposals to address the shortcomings and failures of those services.

Marking the first anniversary of the Government's moratorium from new domestic regulation for micro businesses, the FSB has published a report which argues that the Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) needs more powers to scrutinise performance, advocate regulatory reform and act as an ombudsman.

The duties of the public advocate are limited but include acting as the city's ombudsman and helping residents having trouble with the government get the services they need.

The Public Advocate serves as an ombudsman for city government, providing oversight for city agencies, investigating citizens» complaints about city services and making proposals to address perceived shortcomings or failures of those services.

The government was wrong to completely reject the Parliamentary Ombudsman's report into a collapsed pension scheme, the High Court ruled today.

A Labour MP will call on the government to introduce a veteran's ombudsman to deal with disputes between service personnel and the Ministry of Defence.

Last year, the parliamentary ombudsman demanded the government compensate the workers, saying they lost out in part because of inaccurate, incomplete, unclear and inconsistent advice from official leaflets.

Today's report says ministers had been «at best naive and at worst misleading» in dealing with the issue and concluded that by focusing energy on denying the ombudsman's findings, rather than considering what might be done to help those who lost their savings, the government had «caused further distress to complainants».

Last year the parliamentary ombudsman said the government should compensate 85,000 workers who lost out on their pensions, saying official leaflets advising them on how to save for their retirement were misleading, but ministers have refused to do so.

This ombudsman firmly believes that this example of our newspaper working in a BI-PARTISAN way with our County, State and Federal Governments, as well as with our President, will better help our readers to understand how an INDEPENDENT PRESS may influence important decisions made by our government at all levels!

The ombudsman Ann Abraham said last year that the government was guilty of maladministration.

Their report echoed that of the parliamentary ombudsman, Ann Abraham, who warned earlier this year that the advisory leaflets provided by the government over the pension schemes were inaccurate, incomplete, unclear and inconsistent.

The case has been made, including in our Small Business Taskforce, that Britain needs a digital ombudsman to track anti-competitive practices as they emerge, and provide information to government as they work with regulation at a European level.

«It is disgrace that the government continue to defy the ombudsman and deny all responsibility for pensions that have been lost under their watch,» he said.

The Discrimination Ombudsman (DO) is a governmental authority that works on behalf of the Swedish Parliament and Government to promote equal rights and opportunities and combat discrimination under the Discrimination Act.

Strong independent bodies such as ombudsmen, parliaments and audit institutions are also needed to hold governments to account for education.

In March, an investigation by the local government and social care ombudsman, Michael King, found «worrying patterns of delay» in the process of transferring SEND pupils from the old statements system to new education and health care plans.

The parliamentary ombudsman is to investigate the government's handling of a school closure in Coventry.

Barbara influenced government policy, to improve psychiatric care and health service complaints procedures, and to establish a hospitals» inspectorate and ombudsman.

The federal government has made some improvements, including online applications, and there are resources such as ombudsman programs, discussed later in this report, that can help borrowers navigate the system.

The report by the CFPB Student Loan Ombudsman looks at how student borrower complaints have driven government action targeting illegal acts or practices, as well as new borrower protections and industry reforms.

In England if you are still not happy with their final response, consider taking your complaint to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO).

Scottish Public Services Ombudsman For complaints about the Scottish Parliament, local government, the health service and your water provider.

In 2013, there were 42 disclosures under PIDA made to the ombudsman (with a number dealing with the same matter) and three made within government.

The issue of solitary confinement is now being investigated at all levels of government, in multiple jurisdictions, including by the Ontario Ombudsman, the Ontario Human Rights Commission, the federal government, and now the B.C Supreme Court.

Sort of like how we assume people know that «ombudsman» means «the place you can go to complain about something the government did».

The federal government has announced proposed regulations that will allow banks to opt out of a national customer ombudsman service in favour of private ADR services that they will choose and pay for.