Report into future of North East Lincolnshire's failing children's services is set to be handed to the Government
The council could be temporarily removed from control of them depending on the recommendations
A commissioner’s report into the future of North East Lincolnshire’s failing children’s services is set to be handed to the government.
The council could be temporarily removed from control of them depending on the recommendations. It comes after a damning Ofsted report labelled them ‘inadequate’ and warned that children were put at risk.
The Department of Education named Peter Dwyer to look into the state of the borough’s services in January. He will have the power to issue orders to the council on how to rapidly improve its services, with his report was due to be submitted by the end of March.
Council leaders promised to fully co-operate with the report, and say improvements were already being made. A new cross-party scrutiny group was set up to address the issues.
The government notice earlier this year said: “North East Lincolnshire Council has systemically failed as its children’s social care services have been found to be ‘inadequate’ across all of the key judgements in the recent Ofsted inspection report.
“There is a presumption in cases of persistent or systemic failure that children’s social care services will be removed from local authority control, for a period of time, in order to bring about sustainable improvement, unless there are compelling reasons not to do so.”