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Council agrees to pay £3,600+ over failure to secure significant part of SEN support for autistic boy
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Council agrees to pay £4m damages and costs to publican on rare abuse of process grounds after 20-year legal fight
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Council agrees to pay £50,000 in damages after unlawfully issuing care proceedings in relation to disabled child
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Council agrees to pay complainant £10k after Ombudsman investigation into refusal of Small Business Grant
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Council agrees to pay more than £14,000 after leaving mother in accommodation that hospitalised daughter
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Council agrees to pay more than £5k for SEN failures following investigation by Ombudsman
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Council agrees to pay nearly £7,000 after care cost calculations criticised by Ombudsman
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Council agrees to pay out £60k after Ombudsman report into failure to support autistic woman
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Council agrees to quash permission for quarry project: report
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Council agrees to quashing of lawful development certificate for Dad’s Army railway station building
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Council agrees to quashing of planning permission for 110,000-bird poultry farm: report
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Council agrees to reconsider decision to de-register common land around historic racecourse buildings after judicial review challenge
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Council agrees to take steps to improve understanding among officers of Care Act 2014 duties
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Council agrees to train housing staff on Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and Homelessness Code of Guidance after Ombudsman investigation
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Council agrees to wholescale external review of housing service, pay out £20k after Ombudsman investigation into how child was left in pain for years
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Council allowed child protection plan to "drift without substantive action", Ombudsman finds
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Council and bus operator to pay out £109k in damages and costs to religious organisation over refusal to advertise rally
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Council and care home criticised after dispute sees son banned from visiting his mother
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Council and developer win appeal over quashing of planning permission for 210 homes
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Council and external auditors at loggerheads over lawfulness of commercial property investment spree
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