{"id":1720,"date":"2010-10-17T08:38:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T07:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2010-10-17T08:38:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T07:38:37","slug":"government-abolishes-quango-that-does-not-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"Government abolishes quango that does not exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-1723\" style=\"width:310px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Legal-Ombudsman-Logo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Legal-Ombudsman-Logo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"106\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Legal Ombudsman is the new body<\/div>\r\n<\/div>On 14 October, the government announced that around 200 <a href=\"http:\/\/lgiu.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/14\/list-of-quangos-to-be-abolished-merged-retained-and-under-consideration\/\">quangos <\/a>were to cease.\u00a0 Some were merged some retained and some abolished with some or all functions transferred to civil service, local  government, other quango, expert committee, charity or private sector.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the list is of quangos to be abolished is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Legal_Services_Ombudsman\">Legal Services Ombudsman<\/a> who does not exist, its function was replaced by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legalombudsman.org.uk.\/aboutus\/index.html\">Legal Ombudsman<\/a> on 6 October.<\/p>\n<p>So, for the sake of clarity, the Legal Ombudsman is alive and well, The Legal Services Ombudsman is no longer.<div class=\"img size-full wp-image-1726 alignright\" style=\"width:96px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Legal-Services-Ombudsman2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Legal-Services-Ombudsman2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Legal Services Ombudsman has ceased<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal Ombudsman is the new body On 14 October, the government announced that around 200 quangos were to cease.\u00a0 Some were merged some retained and some abolished with some or all functions transferred to civil service, local government, other quango, expert committee, charity or private sector. However, in the list is of quangos to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}