Public Service and Local Government




OMBUDSMAN WATCHERS RESOURCE CENTRE

LGO (York Office) tinkering with a remedy to make it more acceptable to a council

Evidence donated by Trevor Nunn

During 2005 an investigator working for the Local Government Ombudsman's York office, stated,

(The conversation was recorded and the text below is verbatim)

‘The remedy that was offered to you at the end of that report was not exactly what she wanted, she felt it was reduced by the Ombudsman. I mean it was outside Mrs Kimble's powers completely but she felt that the remedy was not satisfactory’

 Consider this evidence with the comments made by Pat Thomas in her article Reflections on twenty years as an Ombudsman


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