SOCIAL CARE

CQC raps quality of adult care services

By Jamie Hailstone | 30 September 2015

More than a third of adult social care services have been rated as requiring improvement or inade...

SOCIAL CARE

Families are over charged for care, says Ombudsman

By Heather Jameson | 24 September 2015

Families are being forced to pay top up fees for elderly care due to confusing or incorrect infor...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Everyone should have the right to be heard

By Mark Whitehead | 27 July 2015

As calls come for a radical re-think of the government’s current complaints system, Mark Whitehea...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

LGO warns of 'accountability risk'

By Dan Peters | 15 July 2015

Greater co-operation between council and health bodies risks ‘blurring the lines of accountabilit...

FINANCE

LGO review highlights growing complaints system problems

By Dan Peters | 24 June 2015

The council complaints system is under increasing pressure, the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) ...

FINANCE

LGO: New ombudsman should have beefed up powers

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2015

The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has called for a new public services ombudsman to be given p...

FINANCE

Single ombudsman could cover housing and education

By Jonathan Werran | 03 June 2015

Plans to modernise rights of redress for citizens through the establishment of a single Ombudsman...

DCLG

Conflicts of interests 'will be monitored'

By Dan Peters | 28 April 2015

A building share between the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) and Department for Communities and ...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

LGO bites back at council inaction

By Heather Jameson | 20 March 2015

Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) Dr Jane Martin has warned councils it will bite back if they don...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Children's complaints system 'creaking' under pressure, ombudsman reports

By Jonathan Werran | 10 March 2015

A ‘creaking’ system for redressing complaints over children’s services could be overhauled to foc...

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