Kernrechtsfrage
Whether Sozialregion A.___ had standing to appeal the departmental decision in a social welfare matter.
Extrahierter Entscheid
No. As a contractual joint authority, the social region is not itself party-capable and cannot create its own appeal authority through an internal operating regulation; no legal basis or delegation from the municipalities existed.
Extrahierte Begründung
Under §§ 11bis, 12 and 13(2) VRG, only a party-capable person or entity may appeal. Authorities are not themselves parties unless a statute provides otherwise. The social region is an authority/organ of the municipalities, so any appeal right would belong to the underlying municipalities, but no delegation by municipal councils or in municipal bylaws/regulations was shown. The operating regulation could not replace the missing legal basis.