Councils have been warned not to let budget squeezes and disruption caused by change programmes to land them in trouble with the Ombudsman.
In a new report the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman Michael King has told councils not to ‘throw out the rule book’ because of a lack of staff ‘when redesigning services in the face of budget and resource pressures.’
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