The Work Of The Local Government Ombudsman

Download or read book Further review of the work of the Local Government Ombudsman written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012, the Communities and Local Government Committee raised serious concerns about the performance of the Local Government Ombudsman [LGO] and called on it to raise its game significantly. The Committee recognises that over the past 12 months the LGO has made a concerted effort to act on its recommendations and become more accountable, efficient and transparent. There is still work to do, however, and the present report makes four recommendations aimed at allowing the LGO to continue to improve. These are: that the LGO publishes its staff survey in full, rather than summarising it as it did in 2012, that the LGO ensures that the timeliness of its decisions and its new case-handling quality control system are externally reviewed so that improvements in both are maintained, that at least one independent member be appointed to the board that oversees the LGO, and that the LGO appoint within 3 months an independent evaluator of complaints focused on its systems and services, not its decisions