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The SPSO examines complaints where a member of the public claims to have suffered injustice or hardship as a result of maladministration or service failure. The SPSO is the 'last resort'; investigating cases after the complainant has already exhausted the formal complaints procedure of the organisation concerned.
Since the 2007 South Lanarkshire Council election, there are 20 council wards in South Lanarkshire, [40] each serving a population ranging from 13,000 to 20,000 [41] and each ward represented on the council by 3 or 4 councillors elected using single transferable vote; in 2007 and 2012 this produced a total of 67 available seats, which was ...
Registered adult social care services can be investigated regardless of whether there has been council input into the care. The Local Government Ombudsman provides dispute resolution services free of charge to the complainants. It will usually only become involved after a council's complaints procedure has been exhausted. [10]
The Government’s adviser on extremism Robin Simcox said the Standards and Compliance Unit would ‘process and investigate complaints about Prevent’.
South Lanarkshire was created in 1996, when the regions and districts created in 1975 were replaced with single-tier council areas. South Lanarkshire covered the whole area of three of the abolished Strathclyde districts, being Clydesdale, East Kilbride and Hamilton, plus an area including Rutherglen and Cambuslang from the City of Glasgow ...
Originally the headquarters of Lanark County Council (which had previously been based at Lanarkshire House in Ingram Street in Glasgow), [1] [2] between 1975 and 1996 it served the same function for the Strathclyde region's Lanark sub-region (which oversaw five smaller districts, including one for the Hamilton area based at the nearby Townhouse) [3] then for the South Lanarkshire local ...
Convention members reflect the political make up of every council and meet twice a year. COSLA Leaders. Scotland's 32 council leaders meet eight times a year to focus on delivering COSLA's priorities and debate and agree its approach. Policy Boards. COSLA's four policy boards are responsible for policy development and delivery.
The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC) is the executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government responsible for investigating complaints by members of the public against Police Scotland; and the Scottish operations of the National Crime Agency, British Transport Police, Civil Nuclear Constabulary, Ministry of Defence Police, and HM Revenue and Customs.