After the independent watchdog finds a council at fault and tells it how to put things right, it later checks whether the council actually did so. This counts how many such follow-up checks were recorded for the council in the year. It's mainly a supporting number — the base for the compliance rate — but it also shows how much proven fault the council had to remedy; a rate based on one or two checks means little.
| name | lgsco_compliance_outcomes_n |
|---|---|
| dataset | 09-ombudsman-lgsco |
| kind | extracted |
| type | count |
| unit | cases/year |
| grain | council-year |
| role | denominator |
| source | data/lgsco/3-Remedy-Compliance-Outcomes-{yy}-{yy}.csv, column `Number of cases with a compliance outcome recorded during the year` |
| period | 2023-24 and 2024-25 editions |
| missingness | Rows exist only for councils in scope of LGSCO; `Upheld decisions per 100,000 residents` and rate columns are blank for zero-decision councils. Percent columns in file 2 are strings like `67%`. Join to Housing Ombudsman data is by name and lossy (ALMO/association names don't match council names). |
| score_note | Pure denominator for the compliance rate; no performance content itself. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
Number of cases where the LGSCO recorded whether the council implemented its recommendations during the year. The denominator for the compliance rate.