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Council to pay more than £10k after failings put child at risk of gang violence
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Council to pay more than £7,000 to Year 10 pupil left without a school for more than a year
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Council to pay more than £7k after failing to provide "proper education" for boy with SEN
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Council to pay nearly £13k after delayed disability adaptations forced resident to install his own
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Council to pay nearly £30,000 after wheelchair user left in unsuitable home for eight years
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Council to pay out £12k over failings to family of severely autistic boy
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Council to pay out after housing families in B&Bs for longer than six weeks
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Council to pay out after LGO report on girl "lost to system" for four years
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Council to pay out after Year 10 children miss six months education
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Council to pay over £2k after failings led to boy missing out on education
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Council to pay union £647k over alleged failure to inform and consult before transfer of learning disability services
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Council to pay vulnerable man £100,000 after error led to funding cut
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Council to press ahead with “planning and legal steps” over asylum accommodation hotels despite Court of Appeal ruling in Epping Forest case
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Council to prioritise local working residents in new housing allocation scheme
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Council to proceed with selective licensing scheme after High Court rejects judicial review bid
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Council to procure £100k legal advice for local enterprise partnership
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Council to procure £4m barristers’ services framework
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Council to procure legal adviser for regional adoption agency in Black Country
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