VAWG group transparency
Lack of timely publication of minutes from cross-government groups addressing Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG).
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Committee recommendation
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#22 - Inadequate data recording obscures the full extent of VAWG, particularly for minoritised groups.
Written evidence submitted to the Committee highlighted the importance of ensuring all specific VAWG crime types are reflected within this target, and that there is transparency over how these crimes impact different people. Southall Black Sisters told us that the full extent of harms perpetrated against Black, minoritised and migrant survivors is not known due to inadequate data...
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Committee recommendation
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#3 - Increase transparency on cross-government VAWG work to build public confidence
Assessing the Home Office’s previous work, we are not convinced that it has the capacity or imagination to deliver on the Government’s target to halve VAWG in a decade. The Government needs to be more transparent about the work that cross-government groups are undertaking in order to build confidence and trust in the Government’s ability to work in...
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Committee recommendation
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#4 - Publish minutes of cross-government groups tackling VAWG as soon as practicable
We recommend that minutes of cross-government groups that have been set up to tackle VAWG should be published as soon as practicable after their meetings. (Recommendation, Paragraph 13)
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Committee recommendation
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#24 - Lack of clear definitions for specific VAWG crime types hinders effective strategy and response.
The lack of clear definitions for some specific VAWG crime types also contributes to these challenges. The Domestic Abuse Commissioner told us that the government needs to decide a clear definition of so–called ‘honour’–based abuse55 while Professor Katrin Hohl described the current definitions of tech–faciliated abuses as “flimsy”.56 Written evidence submitted by the Muslim Women’s Network UK calls...
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Committee recommendation
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#5 - Require Home Office to outline VAWG halving progress measurement and ensure departmental intelligence sharing.
There are considerable gaps in the Home Office’s understanding of the scale of violence against women and girls, which will undermine its efforts to target interventions and monitor progress against its ambition to halve VAWG. To improve its chances of success, the Home Office must outline clearly how it intends to measure progress against its ambition to halve...
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Committee recommendation
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#23 - Inconsistent VAWG definitions across government impede consistent progress monitoring and accurate measurement.
There are also different definitions of VAWG used across government, which makes it difficult to monitor progress in a consistent way. For example, the definition of VAWG used by the Home Office includes all victims and survivors of VAWG–related offences, regardless of whether they are men or women, boys or girls. Whereas, in contrast, the police definition only...
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Committee recommendation
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#21 - Home Office VAWG prevalence measurement strategy uses limited data and undefined headline metrics.
Government has set an ambition to halve the prevalence of violence against women and girls in the next decade. To measure progress against this ambition, the Home Office told us it intends to use prevalence estimates from Crime Survey for England and Wales data (CSEW).47 We asked the Home Office how it would account for the fact that...
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Committee recommendation
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#28 - Provide details of ministerial working group meetings and expand to include frontline agencies
In its response to this report, the Government should provide details on how many times the group has met since September 2025 and share minutes of its discussions. Defra should expand the ministerial working group to include an additional operational group comprising of frontline agencies operating at the border, such as the Chief Veterinary Officer, the Animal and...
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Committee recommendation
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#2 - Introduce standardised VAWG definition into government strategy and report annual levels
We recommend that a new standardised definition of VAWG, to be used across government, police and the third sector, should form part of the Government’s VAWG strategy. We further recommend that the Government reports annually to the Committee on the level of VAWG reported against this definition. (Recommendation, Paragraph 8) Collaboration and funding gaps
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Committee recommendation
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#14 - Home Office acknowledges current lack of comprehensive VAWG spending data, promising future improvements.
We asked the Home Office about the potential implications of this on how well it can prioritise efforts and ensure that work is not being duplicated. The Home Office agreed it did not have a comprehensive account of exactly what government departments are spending on tackling VAWG, but told us that this will be addressed through its approach...
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Committee recommendation
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#20 - Home Office evidence review highlights effective VAWG interventions but reveals data gaps.
The Home Office has also sought to improve its understanding of what works by conducting a review of the available evidence at a national level, which it intends to publish with the new VAWG strategy, in summer 2025.45 Officials told us that this work has provided some valuable insights on the importance of education; bystander interventions; screening to...
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NAO recommendation
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Tackling violence against women and girls
The Home Office, as the lead department for the Safer Streets mission and tackling violence against women and girls, should: a establish a shared vision for how the government?s target to halve violence and women and girls will be met, by: ? agreeing a common definition of VAWG across government and policing and identifying the data that will...
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Committee recommendation
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#28 - DfE's updated RSE curriculum shows potential, but lacks sufficient data on under-16s.
DfE also told us that it has made relationships and sex education (RSE) compulsory in schools since 2020, and in May 2024 revised the curriculum to include discussions on online harm, social media influencers, sharing of intimate imagery and upskirting as a new offence. In terms of evaluating the success of this work, DfE told us that it...
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Committee recommendation
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#24 - Utilise Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy to raise awareness of abuse against Muslim women.
The Government should use work around the Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy to raise awareness of the abuse of Muslim women in this country. It should complement an updated hate crime action plan. (Recommendation, Paragraph 103)
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Committee recommendation
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#27 - Require formal report outlining prison rehabilitation's contribution to violence against women reduction target
The Government must outline how rehabilitation in the prisons, including for both convicted and remand prisoners, is going to contribute to the Government’s target of reducing of violence against women and girls by 50 per cent, with a formal report within six months. (Recommendation, Paragraph 105)
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Committee recommendation
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#16 - Provide and publish detailed updates on Inter-Ministerial Group work, meetings, attendees, and family engagement.
In its response to this Report, the Government should provide: • an update on the work of the Inter-Ministerial Group to date; • the dates and attendance of any Inter-Ministerial Group meetings since January 2024; • the names of each Minister or job title of each official who attended each Inter-Ministerial Group meeting from November 2024 to present;...
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HMICFRS recommendation
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Police response to violence against women and girls: Final inspection report
There should be an immediate and unequivocal commitment that the response to VAWG offences is an absolute priority for government, policing, the criminal justice system, and public sector partnerships. This needs to be supported at a minimum by a relentless focus on these crimes; mandated and clear responsibilities; and sufficient funding so that all partner agencies can work...
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Committee recommendation
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#1 - Committee reviewed evidence from key organisations on tackling violence against women and girls.
On the basis of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, we took evidence from the Home Office, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), the Department for Education (DfE) and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG).1 We also took evidence from the Domestic Abuse Commissioner,...
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Committee recommendation
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#23 - Include non-consensual intimate image abuse in VAWG definition and identify prevalence data.
The Government should ensure that NCII abuse is included when creating a common definition of VAWG, as part of its mission to reduce it by 50% within the next decade. It should also identify what data can be used to measure the specific prevalence of NCII, as part of that mission. (Recommendation, Paragraph 112)
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Committee recommendation
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#1 - Muslim women experience increasing, gendered, and intersectional abuse and discrimination in the UK.
Muslims in the UK face increasing levels of online, verbal, and physical abuse and discrimination. Muslim women are disproportionately likely to face such abuse and experience it in ways that are specifically gendered and often linked to their race and/or ethnic identity, as well as their perceived inability to retaliate. Such abuse and harassment occurs in everyday situations,...
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Committee recommendation
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#18 - Keep Committee fully appraised of Government's work and decisions regarding ICAI's future.
As its Parliamentary oversight body, this Committee must be kept fully appraised of the Government’s work and decision-making around ICAI’s future. (Recommendation, Paragraph 37)
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Committee recommendation
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#43 - Set out communication plan for dynamic alignment realities to businesses and the wider public.
The Government should set out in its response to this report how it intends to communicate the realities of dynamic alignment—not only to affected businesses, farmers, producers, and industry stakeholders, but also to the wider public—explaining the benefits and challenges and how this approach interacts with the UK’s democratic processes. (Recommendation, Paragraph 106) 40
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Committee recommendation
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#42 - Realities of dynamic alignment and its implications remain poorly explained to the public.
While the Government has been vocal in advocating for an SPS deal and highlighting its benefits for farmers, traders, and the wider UK economy, the realities and implications of dynamic alignment have not been well explained to the public. There is a need for fuller debate on both the benefits and challenges of this system, including its long...
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Committee recommendation
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#40 - Publish plans for parliamentary scrutiny of dynamic alignment and Parliament's future role.
We believe that our remit and responsibilities make this Committee the most appropriate body for scrutiny of SPS policy. We are therefore disappointed that the Minister for the Constitution and European Union Relations refused to appear before us. We echo the House of Lords recommendation that: “The Government should set out how it envisages that a scrutiny system...
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Committee recommendation
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#2 - Establish and publish the scope of SPS negotiations for effective consultation
The Government and EU should establish the scope of the SPS negotiations as a priority and publish this information on an interim basis, prior to the conclusion of negotiations, to enable effective consultation and scrutiny. (Recommendation, Paragraph 16)
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Committee recommendation
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#10 - 10th Report - Peace under pressure: Protecting Women, Peace and Security
There is a lack of transparency surrounding the UK’s Women, Peace and Security spending, including how much Official Development Assistance is directed towards Women’s Rights Organisations, making it difficult for civil society organisations and other actors to track and assess progress on Women, Peace and Security. (Conclusion, Paragraph 60)
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Committee recommendation
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#7 - Second Report - Tackling online abuse
We recommend that the Online Safety Bill should include abuse based on the characteristics protected under the Equality Act and hate crime legislation as priority harmful content in the primary legislation. It should also list hate crime and Violence Against Women and Girls offences as specific relevant offences within the scope of the Bill’s illegal content safety duties...
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Committee recommendation
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#2 - Fifth report - Equality in the heart of democracy: A gender sensitive House of Commons
The rise of online abuse and harassment of female parliamentary candidates and MPs, including rape and death threats, is intolerable. It is unacceptable that such behaviour has become commonplace and contributed to female MPs standing down at the last general election. Vicious misogynistic abuse must not be accepted as an inevitable facet of a woman’s life in politics....
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Committee recommendation
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#5 - Second Report - Tackling online abuse
The Government’s online safety proposals do not go far enough in acknowledging and seeking to tackle the heightened levels of abuse faced by some communities online. While the requirement for Ofcom to consult with civil society groups in Tackling Online Abuse 47 developing elements of the regulatory framework such as codes of practice for platforms is welcome, the...
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Committee recommendation
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#18 - Stress importance of women-led organisations in peace negotiations and peacebuilding structures.
The UK Government should stress the importance of the participation of women-led and women’s rights organisations in any peace negotiations and peacebuilding structures, and should lead by example by including such groups in all events in which it participates. (Recommendation, Paragraph 97)
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LGO / SPSO decision
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21-006-136 - Westminster City Council
Summary: Ms T complains that the Council has not taken the necessary action to address her concerns about anti-social behaviour from a café near to her home. She says this is having a negative effect on her life and her property has been targeted by the perpetrators. We find fault because the Council did not signpost Ms T...
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Committee recommendation
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#6 - Second Report - Tackling online abuse
We recommend that the Online Safety Bill should include a statutory duty for the Government to consult with civil society organisations representing children and users who are most affected by online abuse on the legislation’s ongoing effectiveness at tackling online abuse, and how it could be refined to better achieve this goal. This should include, but need not...
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LGO / SPSO decision
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201600473 - Argyll Community Housing Association
Mr C contacted the housing association regarding the behaviour of his neighbour, who was their tenant. He said that a number of incidents had caused him and his wife to become stressed and upset. A few months later, he raised a formal complaint with the association expressing his unhappiness at what he considered to be their lack of...
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Detention investigation recommendation
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Independent Investigation into Concerns about Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre - Rec R35
Serco should seek Home Office approval for a programme of visits to the centre. Visitors could include officers and politicians from the local council, interested MPs and groups providing services. The purpose of the programme would be to show them the work and facilities and brief them.
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Detention investigation recommendation
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Independent Investigation into Concerns about Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre - Rec R34
Serco should seek to agree with the Home Office a new strategic communications plan for Yarl’s Wood based on the principles of transparency and openness.
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Detention investigation recommendation
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Independent Investigation into Concerns about Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre - Rec R33
The Serco director of media relations should form and maintain a regular stakeholder group.
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LGO / SPSO decision
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201508757 - Key Housing Association Ltd
Ms C complained about the housing association's handling of her concerns about her neighbour's dog. Ms C said there was excessive noise from her neighbour's dog and remained dissatisfied with the action taken to date by the association to resolve the situation. Ms C was also unhappy with the association's handling of her complaint. The association provided evidence...
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LGO / SPSO decision
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201508173 - The City of Edinburgh Council
Miss C complained that the council had failed to properly handle numerous complaints about noise from her downstairs neighbour that she had been experiencing for two years. We found that the council's initial response to Miss C's noise complaints was appropriate and in line with their Antisocial Behaviour Policy. However, aside from a period of time when the...
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LGO / SPSO decision
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PSOW-202506881 - Pobl
Mr A complained that the Housing Association had not taken sufficient steps to address the concerns he had raised with regards to a neighbours antisocial behaviour. Mr A expressed concern over a lack of communication from the Housing Association. The Ombudsman found that the Housing Association had failed to provide a formal complaint response. The Ombudsman felt that...
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LGO / SPSO decision
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22-004-632 - Mid Sussex District Council
Summary: We will not investigate this complaint that the complainant has been subject to witness intimidation and harassment relating after she provided a statement which led to court proceedings against a third party. This is because the issues raised are criminal matters which can only be dealt with by the police. There is no evidence of fault in...
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23-019-749 - City of London
Summary: We will not investigate this complaint about the Council’s response to the complainants reports of noise nuisance and damage to property. There is not enough evidence of fault in the Council’s actions to justify an investigation.
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24-020-487 - Eastleigh Borough Council
Summary: We will not investigate Ms X’s complaint that the Council failed to act on her reports of noise nuisance caused by her neighbour since 2020. This is because there is insufficient evidence of fault in the Council’s decision-making. Furthermore, part of the complaint is late, and an investigation into the remaining issues would not achieve any additional...
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LGO / SPSO decision
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24-008-655 - London Borough of Croydon
Summary: We will not investigate Ms X’s complaint about the Council’s handling of her reports of anti-social behaviour by a neighbour, whose tenancy is managed by the Council. There is insufficient evidence of fault by the Council in the last 12 months to justify our involvement.
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LGO / SPSO decision
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24-005-505 - London Borough of Newham
Summary: Mr X complained about the Council’s response to his reports of Anti-Social Behaviour. Mr X said this caused him anxiety and distress. There was fault in the way the Council delayed its investigation, communication and complaint handling was poor. This frustrated Mr X and he was put to time and trouble to complain. The Council has agreed...
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LGO / SPSO decision
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25-008-323 - Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
Summary: We will not investigate this complaint about the Council’s response to Mr X’s reports of noise nuisance. This is because the Council responded to these reports in line with its policy and it is unlikely we would find fault in its response.
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LGO / SPSO decision
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201305159 - Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership
Mr C complained about the housing association's handling of his representations about an incident that led to action being taken against him. He complained that they had failed to take into account his version of what had happened. Mr C also complained that they did not consider his complaint within the timescales set out in their complaints procedure....
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LGO / SPSO decision
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23-008-812 - London Borough of Lewisham
Summary: the Council failed to investigate Mr B’s complaint about statutory noise nuisance from a neighbouring property. An apology, payment to Mr B, beginning an investigation if Mr B is still experiencing noise nuisance and training for officers is satisfactory remedy.
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LGO / SPSO decision
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23-019-519 - Bristol City Council
Summary: We will not investigate this complaint about the Council’s alleged failure to take action regarding Mr X’s noise complaint. This is because an investigation would be unlikely to find fault with the Council’s actions.
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25-005-494 - Charnwood Borough Council
Summary: We will not investigate Mr X’s complaint about events around the Council issuing a community protection warning. This is mainly because any injustice is unlikely to be significant enough to justify our involvement.
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201707161 - Glasgow Housing Association
Mrs C complained on behalf of her late mother (Ms A) that the housing association failed to take reasonable action or provide an appropriate level of support in response to reports of anti-social behaviour. Ms A had made a number of complaints about anti-social noise caused by her upstairs neighbour. The association issued a warning to the neighbour...
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