Issue - meetings

To receive a confidential report (copy enclosed) which provides the Committee with an overview of the complaints lodged with the Public Service Ombudsman for Wales that are relevant to the county, town or community councils in Denbighshire.

The meeting moved in to Part 2 in order to receive a confidential report from the MO which gave an overview of the complaints lodged with the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales which related to the county, town and community councils in Denbighshire, in accordance with s.100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972. The MO gave an update of progress in the investigation of each complaint listed in the report and the Committee discussed a number of issues stemming from the complaints lodged with the Ombudsman.

The MO also clarified the new arrangements stemming from the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales’s Annual Report 2011/12, which specified that cases that the Ombudsman did not intend to follow up would be referred to Monitoring Officers or Standards Committees in order to give an opportunity for a local investigation prior to the closure of a complaint.

RESOLVED – that the Committee notes the contents of the report.

The meeting concluded at 11:10am.