We have now published the analysis and responses we received to our consultation on how we intend to approach and manage reviews about welfare fund decisions.

This is a new role for SPSO, so we published three documents for public consultation:

• A draft Statement of Practice setting out how we would approach reviews;
• draft rules for oral hearings; and
• a Statement on a proposed approach to an Equalities and Human Rights Analysis of our work.

The full public consultation opened on 4 September and closed on 27 November 2015.