Does the Public Sector Ombudsman serve a useful function. The Ombudsman’s mission statement sums up what the office tries to achieve “Helping to achieve a public service which is open, fair and accountable”. The job of the Ombudsman is to investigate complaints from members of the public who feel they have been unfairly treated by certain public bodies or on his own initiative. He believes as I do, that public bodies are becoming more …showed first 75 words of 2626 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2626 total…also anxious to promote good standards of public administration amongst the bodies, which are subject to his jurisdiction, and he has published a guide, which has been adopted by many public bodies. For a public citizen to be able to achieve a satisfactory, speedy and low cost resolution to a complaint is a service that has proved useful to many people in the past and will prove to the useful to many more to come.