About Public Service Ombudsmen in general.
Each Ombudsman has their own page for more specific information.All three current English Ombudsmen are ex local authority Chief Executive Officers, they spent most, if not all, their adult working life in local government and as a result are die hard local government aficionados.
Jerry White -
Anne Seex -
Tony Redmond Having ex local authority Chief Executive Officers as Ombudsmen is akin to having convicted criminals as judges. That may explain why the current Local Government Ombudsmen find less than half as much maladministration as Ann Abraham the Parliamentary Ombudsmen.
Following devolution The Scottish and Welsh Local Government Ombudsmen are now known as
Public Service Ombudsmen.
Alice Brown -
Adam Peat The English Local Government Ombudsmen and Parliamentary Ombudsman are also about to be renamed
Public Service Ombudsmen
As a result we are also include the current Parliamentary Ombudsman, Ann Abraham.
Ann Abraham
A quote from Adam Peat Public Sector Ombudsman for Wales
' I think that it is commonplace that corruption breeds best where you have a small group of people in charge of an organisation for a very long time indeed'.
Adam, does that include Ombudsmen?