No person should suffer!
It is every citizen's duty to challenge the torment and distress so often caused by local authorities such as North East Lincolnshire Council. Quite often, maladministration, abuse of power and injustice within these authorities are simply left uncontested. Even when Councils are brought to task, their own internal investigations simply lack the credibility of an honest, impartial study of those complaints put before them.
Misconduct by Councils, when it occurs, harms not only the community they are elected to serve but the wider reputation of government as a whole across the entire country. We all should expect Councils to uphold the highest standards of integrity and carry out all its duties. Most wrongdoing stems from officers that are employed to uphold the Council Constitutions. It is these officers who have no fear of retribution from the employer they serve.
Unmistakeably, in particular matters where law and procedure have been unequivocally demonstrated to these officers, it is of little or of no consequence to them until the issues are forced into further investigation. These breaches of law and procedure are shown to exist for many years, prejudicing the rights of those individuals entitled to exercise or benefit from the fundamental function of that regulation or procedure and as of a consequence, irrefutably causing maladministration.
Despite hard evidence and firm arguments proving inexcusable behaviour by Council officers, the unfortunate citizen who has empowered themselves to bring their complaint forward is immediately deflated upon the Council's conclusions into their complaints. Often, the complainant is made to feel that they are at fault as the Council usually vindicates itself of little or any wrongdoing.
After the initial whitewash from a Council investigation, those brave enough to go a step further will no doubt run into the biased brick wall of the Local Government Ombudsman. The Local Government Ombudsman is most efficient and indeed methodical in his or her duty of 'tidying up' complaints against Councils, adding further insult to injury. Such injustice is intolerable from a watchdog body which purports itself to be 'impartial'.
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