I listened to a quite extraordinary exchange on Radio 4's You and Yours this week.
Trafford Council has twice been found guilty by the Local Government Ombudsman of maladministration causing injustice. Both times they have simply ignored the ruling.
Both cases involved vulnerable people and both seem, to me, to be simply that Trafford is too stingy to pay what it should and has too much brass neck to be bothered by the public reaction.
In the first case it refused to agree to waive repayment of a housing grant it had made to an elderly woman with mental health problems who had been unaware of a change in the rules governing such a clawback.
In the second it is refusing to pay £100,000 in compensation to the family of Carly Wright, a young woman with disabilities whose needs were neglected by the council when she was due to transfer from children's services to those for adults.
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