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Elderly woman with dementia forced to spend thousands on care gets apology from London council

Borough agrees to compensate elderly woman with dementia after failing to assess her care needs for a year

Evening Standard

Successful special educational needs complaints in England quadruple in four years

Rising demand and ballooning council deficits have left a threadbare service – and children and parents in crisis

The Guardian - UK

Lambeth Council to pay £15k after housing mum in flat separating her from disabled children

The Local Government Ombudsman found ‘serious failings’ in how the council handled the housing needs of Ms X and her disabled children.

Evening Standard

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Councils in England to get revised guidance on ‘middle-class fly-tipping’

Ombudsman concerned about overzealous fining of people for leaving items outside their home to be given away

The Guardian - UK

Special educational needs system in England in ‘utter disarray’, says ombudsman

Exclusive: Young people and their families lack support, while social workers are overwhelmed, according to Amerdeep Somal

The Guardian - UK

England’s special educational needs crisis ‘out of control’ amid record complaints

Analysis shows that number of cases upheld has soared by 60%, with some children left without a school placement for over a year

The Guardian - UK

Disabled woman left trapped in upstairs council flat with no lift for four years

Brent Council was forced to pay the woman, referred to as ‘Miss X’, £9,200 after the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) investigated her complaint

Daily Mirror

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Autistic man with history of self-harm was caused 'distress, uncertainty and frustration' by handling of his care

he authority - which has been ordered to pay the man £250 in compensation - also delayed his support following a re-referral, during which time the police and ambulance services were called to him several times.

Manchester Evening News

Bristol City Council SEND failures cost taxpayers £15K in seven months

Nine complaints about special educational needs provision have been upheld by watchdogs

Bristol Post

All the ways Liverpool Council failed man left to live on city streets

The council has been heavily criticised and forced to pay compensation to a man left on the streets for six months

Liverpool Echo

Wirral Council hit with more complaints than any other in Merseyside

The figures come as council tax rates across the country increases

Liverpool Echo

Ombudsman criticises Bristol City Council in annual review

City Hall officers hail "improvements" following two previous damning letters from the watchdog

Bristol Post

Leocor Gold Commences Drill Program on the Baie Verte Project, NW Newfoundland

Vancouver, British Columbia – TheNewswire - June 23, 2022 - Leocor Gold Inc. (the "Company" or "Leocor") (CSE:LECR), ((; (Frankfurt:LGO) is pleased to announce it has completed mobilization of a Rotary Air Blast ("RAB") drill and initiated drilling on the Company's Baie Verte project located near Anaconda Mining's Pine Cove…

Benzinga

Tragic pensioner suffered four falls in eight DAYS at care home before council bosses finally took action

During his brief time at the home, ‘Mr Y’ also sustained a head injury that needed hospital treatment, an investigation by the ombudsman has found.

Manchester Evening News

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