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News and Press Archive January 2010

21 January 2010
Ombudsmen recommend £95,000 in compensation after seven years of ineffectiveness by three public bodies
The combined failings of three public bodies allowed illegal waste activities to go unchecked over a seven-year period with devastating effect.


21 January 2010
Failure to deal properly with a homeless pregnant woman
Hammersmith and Fulham Council failed to consider taking a homelessness application from a pregnant woman when she left her accommodation.


15 January 2010
New Ombudsman appointed
Dr Jane Martin has been appointed as Local Government Ombudsman. She took up her post in the Coventry office on 11 January 2010.