Public Service and Local Government




OMBUDSMAN WATCHERS RESOURCE CENTRE

Evidence that Local Government Ombudsmen do what councils tells them to do

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 council wrote back and actually informed Mrs Thomas's decision that there was no more for her."

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


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