Case Ref: 21 008 922 Category: Education Sub Category: Special educational needs

• The Council will provide training or guidance to all staff who handle reviews of Education, Health and Care Plans to ensure they are aware of the need to meet timescales, avoid undue delay and decide on the parent’s preferred setting in line with the statutory guidance.

Case Ref: 21 007 850 Category: Adult care services Sub Category: Other

• The Council will arrange a training session for staff involved in this case (including members of the learning disability and autism team and information governance team about the Council's duties under the Human Rights Act 1998.

Case Ref: 21 006 640 Category: Children's care services Sub Category: Looked after children

• The Council will amend its Children's Services policy to include a timescale for sending its records of supervised contact between parents and their children when the children are in foster care.

Case Ref: 21 001 012 Category: Education Sub Category: Special educational needs

• The Council will identify why it cannot provide records of contacts with a complainant and if appropriate, take action to prevent recurrence. It will inform the Ombudsman of the outcome and any action taken.
• The Council will provide training or guidance to the officers that liaised with the complainant, to ensure they understand the Council’s duty to secure Education, Health and Care Plan provision and to act when made aware this is not being met.

Case Ref: 20 013 133 Category: Planning Sub Category: Enforcement

• The Council has agreed to amend its Planning Enforcement Policy as necessary so that its description of monitoring accurately reflects its practice.

Case Ref: 20 012 066 Category: Children's care services Sub Category: Other

• Provide us with evidence it has shared a copy of this decision with complaint managers to capture learning from it and reminded staff how they should follow the statutory complaint procedure.

Case Ref: 20 011 662 Category: Education Sub Category: Special educational needs

• The Council should remind relevant staff of its Access to Education policy and what responsibilities are placed on each involved party. It should also write to School A to ensure it properly understands the policy for any future similar situations.

Case Ref: 20 011 328 Category: Children's care services Sub Category: Disabled children

• The Council will provide evidence to the Ombudsman of the written leaflets/guidance/information it has produced for families following the Stage 3 panel’s recommendations.

Case Ref: 20 010 834 Category: Children's care services Sub Category: Other

• The Council agrees to remind staff dealing with statutory complaints of: • Which complaints should be considered through the statutory procedure, and the limited circumstances in which the Council is not required to investigate a complaint, or can refer a complaint early to the Ombudsman.

Case Ref: 20 007 811 Category: Adult care services Sub Category: Assessment and care plan

• The Council has agreed to review the system through which it monitors and supervises the progress of cases allocated to its adult social care social workers to ensure cases are escalated when needed.
• The Council has agreed to share the lessons learned about complaints handling with the team who handled Ms C's complaint.