SUMMARIES OF SELECTED CASES The Regional State Administration resumed the case and agreed with the opinion expressed by the Ombudsman. Furthermore, the Regional State ­Administration asked the municipality for information about the steps which the municipality intended to take in the matter. Subsequently, the Ombudsman informed the consultant that, based on the information currently available, he would take no further action on the matter. U. municipal AND REGIONAL AUTHORITIES The following cases concluded in 2013 were selected for publication as part of the Annual Report: 2013-2. School principal’s decision on temporary individual teaching was an administrative decision. The decision was implemented with too short notice The father of a boy complained to the Ombudsman that the boy’s school had decided with short notice that the boy, then in his first year, would no longer be taught in his class but would instead receive so-called temporary individual teaching for 10 hours a week. The temporary individual teaching would continue until a suitable educational option was found for the boy. In the Ombudsman’s opinion, the school’s letter to the parents about the implementation of temporary individual teaching of their son was a decision within the meaning of the Public Administration Act, and the letter should consequently have included a reference to the rules of law according to which the decision had been made. According to the rules, a school’s decision to implement temporary individual teaching of a pupil must be approved by the municipal council, but the Ombudsman had to assume that the municipality had not approved the decision. In the Ombudsman’s opinion, that was an error. On the other hand, the Ombudsman did not find that there were grounds for rejecting the school’s assessment that it was necessary to implement temporary individual teaching of the boy. The boy’s parents were notified on a Thursday of the school’s decision to transfer their son to temporary individual teaching, starting on the following Monday. 147