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News and Press Archive July 2009

28 July 2009
Council wrongly destroyed woman’s car
Ealing Council wrongly destroyed a woman’s car that was in a car park outside her home.


24 July 2009
No fault in handling of application to fill lake with waste
Oxfordshire County Council’s decision to approve an application to fill a lake with waste and ash slurry was not flawed.


15 July 2009
School admissions complaints up by 50 per cent say Ombudsmen in annual report
There was a substantial increase in complaints about school admissions made to the Local Government Ombudsmen in 2008/09.


15 July 2009
Ombudsman criticises Ealing Council over controlled parking zone
Ealing Council’s consultation exercise for a controlled parking zone (CPZ) was inadequate.


08 July 2009
Slough Grammar School criticised over admission appeal process
There were significant faults in the handling of Slough Grammar School admission appeals.


08 July 2009
Failure to provide education for girl with special needs
The former Bedfordshire County Council failed to provide education for a girl with special educational needs for over a year.


08 July 2009
Unreasonable delay in assessing boy’s special educational needs
A boy with special educational needs missed a year of appropriate schooling because Suffolk County Council delayed in assessing his needs,


01 July 2009
Comprehensive and spectacular failures over child in care
Failures by the former Cheshire County Council led to a child in its care never attending secondary school.