Brighton and Hove City Council must rue the day it ever decided to change the way in which it awards grants to voluntary organisations.

Ever since the amounts were revealed, after a long delay last year, there have been complaints by those who missed out, mainly concentrating on the process.

Now the council has produced reports for each organisation which applied for cash, saying how well they scored in appraisals and what recommendations were made about them.

But what the council has not done is to reveal how the decisions were actually made. Some organisations with high points received nothing, while others with low scores got grants.

It's obvious there will be more losers than winners when organisations apply for three times the amount available and that some of the losers will complain.

The council has already refuted the widely-publicised lie that community organisations lost out to arts groups by revealing it was the other way round.

But the complaints this time have extended beyond normal whingeing. They indicate a widespread dissatisfaction with the whole grants system.

The council has set up a scrutiny panel chaired by an opposition councillor to hear evidence. It will make recommendations in the spring.

Labour leaders had better pay attention to what it says, for unless changes are made there will be even more trouble later this year, with the next round of grants.