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SURREY
More families took the county council to tribunal for failing to meet SEND duties than any other local authority, yet those in charge are doing just fine.

LEICESTER
The city council is subjecting itself to an independent review after failed bids to quash court findings that it racially discriminated against an employee.

LAMBETH
The council has paid almost £4m for temporary accommodation to a landlord with a previous conviction – for flouting the borough's own property rules.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS
A councillor has nodded through gigs that will keep the sleep royal spa town's refined residents up well past their bedtimes.

ENFIELD
The conduct committee has ruled that the borough's former civic mayor brought his office into disrepute by "misusing council resources".


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