Mr S Carruthers

Email: [FOI #2908 email]

Our Ref : SH/167/08

Your Ref :

Date : 8 September 2008

Ask For : Sue Hewkin

Ext : 1635

Direct Dial : 01773 841635
Email : [email address]

Dear Mr Carruthers

Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Request for Information

Thank you for your email received 8 September 1008 requesting the following information:

I would appreciate copies of all monitoring officer reports issued by the Council following admission and or agreement by the Council that they had committed maladministration causing injustice, as evidenced through an local settlement agreed with the Local Government Ombudsman, as well as any monitoring officer report produced following a formal finding identified through a maladministration and injustice report by the Local Government Ombudsman for the last six years.

If a monitoring officer report has not been produced, I should appreciate clarification if the Council rejected both the Ombudsman's findings and their recommendations in relation to each settlement agreed, and copies of all associated documentation for the last six years.

Your request has been considered and I am able to provide you with the following response:

No Monitoring Officer reports have been issued.
No Ombudsman findings and recommendations have been rejected.

To help us to improve the quality of our responses to future Freedom of Information requests, any feedback you may have on this response would be appreciated. A copy of the Council's Customer Comments leaflet is attached to assist you. If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your enquiry and the information you have received, please follow the Council's Complaints Procedure. You may put your complaint in writing by completing the attached "Helping You to let us know what you think" leaflet.

If you are still not happy with the outcome, you have the right of appeal to the Information Commissioner at:

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliff House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Tel: 01625 545 745
Fax: 01625 524 510
Email: [email address]

If you have any further queries, please contact me either in writing at the above address or by telephone on 01773 841635 and quote your ID No 167/08.

Yours sincerely

Sue Hewkin
Democratic Services and FOI Officer

Encs

P M Carney, Solicitor
Chief Executive

PO Box 15 Town Hall Ripley
Derbyshire DE5 3XE
Tel: 01773 570222 Fax: 01773 841616
Minicom: 01773 841490
E-Mail: [email address]
Web: www.ambervalley.gov.uk

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