Who is the Ombudsman?

The Ombudsman is appointed by the Queen to look into complaints about public services in Wales.  The Ombudsman also investigates complaints that members of local government bodies have behaved wrongly.  He is independent and unbiased.  The current Ombudsman is Peter Tyndall.

The Ombudsman can consider complaints about the behaviour of members of:

• county and county borough councils;
• comunity councils; and
• fire authorities, police authorities and national part authorities.

All these authorities have a code of conduct which sets out in detail how members must follow recognised principles of behaviour in public life.