Independent report
Selected summaries of investigations October to December 2015
The summaries provide examples of the kind of complaints we handle and we hope they will show that complaining can make a difference.
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The short anonymised stories illustrate the profound impact that failures in public services can have on the lives of individuals and their families. Most of the summaries we are publishing are cases we have upheld or partly upheld. These are the cases which provide clear and valuable lessons for public services by showing what needs changing so that similar mistakes can be avoided in future. They include complaints about failures to spot serious illnesses and mistakes by government departments that caused financial hardship.