COVID-19 update

Date of article: 20/05/2021

Daily News of: 21/05/2021

Country:  United Kingdom - Scotland

Author: Scottish Public Services Ombudsman

Article language: en

Like most organisations, at the SPSO we have implemented our business continuity procedures during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.  We are continually assessing the impact of the current situation on our ability to continue to deliver high quality services and updating staff and stakeholders regularly.

We have robust business continuity plans in place for unforeseen events. However, the unprecedented circumstances we have been facing are presenting us with substantial resourcing challenges. The impacts on our service have been significant, and unfortunately there are unprecedented delays in our ability to continue delivering our services to the timescales and levels we normally do.

We continue to review the situation and are closely following the advice issued by the Scottish Government and Health Protection Scotland.

We are updating this and the web pages linked below, as well as our twitter channel, as the situation develops. 

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