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A Consultation Ombudsman? – Is it time to consider a new way to settle disputes about public consultations?
At various times in the last fifty years, Governments have responded to pressure to handle complaints of various kinds by setting up a range of Ombudsmen. Including the devolved administrations, there are now about a dozen separate organisations using the Swedish terminology that has now been adopted worldwide.3
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