Sefton Council

Dear Sir or Madam,

I would appreciate copies of all monitoring officer reports issued
by the Sefton Council following admission and or agreement by
the Sefton 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 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
local settlement agreed, and copies of all associated documentation
for the last six years.

Yours faithfully

Stuart Hardwicke Carruthers

Dear Sir or Madam,

Respons Overdue. Complaints process engaged.

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS

Dear Richard Roscoe,

The Council is responsible for its own records and meeting the
requirements of the FoI not the Local Government Ombudsman ['LGO'].

There appears to have been a breach of the FoI Act. There have been
findings of maladministration against the Council since your manual
file system was lost. s5(2) of the Local Government and Housing is
reasonably precise, so records should be in existence... there is
absolutely no need for the LGO to hold these records (and they
won't hold copies of the Council's own records).

Review is requested.

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS

Dear Richard Roscoe,

In relation to this request it is identified in the Local
Government and Housing Act 1989 that:

(2) It shall be the duty of a relevant authority's monitoring
officer, if it at any time appears to him that any proposal,
decision or omission by the authority, by any committee,
sub-committee or officer of the authority or by any joint committee
on which the authority are represented constitutes, has given rise
to or is likely to or would give rise to—

(a) a contravention by the authority, by any committee,
sub-committee or officer of the authority or by any such joint
committee of any enactment or rule of law or of any code of
practice made or approved by or under any enactment; or

(b) any such maladministration or injustice as is mentioned in Part
III of the [1974 c. 7.] Local Government Act 1974 (Local
Commissioners) or Part II of the [1975 c. 30.] Local Government
(Scotland) Act 1975 (which makes corresponding provision for
Scotland),

to prepare a report to the authority with respect to that proposal,
decision or omission.

You have stated that the reports don't exist, and it has been
identified that this is impossible. Unless the Sefton Council has
formally identified that it has rejected the LGO and identified
that this office is of no consequence and should be ignored.

Obviously you will have documents identifying which is the case.

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Sefton Borough
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Sefton Council'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/se...

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS

Dear Sir or Madam,

How is your internal review progressing

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS