Decision details

RESOLVED: That Cabinet agrees to:

i)             Note the Local Government Ombudsman’s findings and recommendations and to endorse the steps already taken by Officers by way of offering a remedy.

REASON:     To satisfy the legal requirement to consider the report and to confirm the appropriateness of the remedy recommended by the Ombudsman.

ii)            Take no further action in relation to the matters set out in this report.

REASON:     The steps already taken have been accepted by the Ombudsman as representing an appropriate remedy.

iii)           Adopt this report as the Council’s formal response under section 5A of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 and section 31 of the Local Government Act 1974 and arrange for it to be sent to every member of the Council and the Ombudsman.

REASON:  To comply with legal requirements.