Family Division President: judges can talk to Ofsted
Judges are allowed to talk to Ofsted inspectors the President of the Family Division has declared. In newly published guidance, Sir James Munby noted that “some confusion had arisen over the propriety”...
View ArticleReading Council ‘not improving quickly enough’
The Children’s Services Department of Reading Council has not improved adequately since failing an inspection last year Ofsted has declared. In August 2016 inspectors gave the Berkshire authority an...
View ArticleWest Midlands Council praised by Ofsted
A local authority in the West Midlands has been praised by government inspectorate Ofsted for a range of improvements to its child protection services. Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council was in danger...
View ArticleCouncil praised for speedy improvements
West Berkshire Council in Newbury has been praised by Ofsted after achieving a ‘good’ rating just two years on from an ‘inadequate’ one. Back in 2015 the Council’s children’s services department...
View ArticleSocial workers at West Yorkshire council plan more strikes
Social workers at a troubled council in West Yorkshire may begin a further series of strikes next month reports suggest. Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council is currently rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted...
View ArticleCouncils to advise struggling London Borough
The London Borough of Islington and Lincolnshire County Council have agreed to become “intervention advisors” at the troubled London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Earlier this year the children’s services...
View ArticleOfsted calls for relationship education
Lessons in what constitutes healthy relationships should be a greater priority for schools, Ofsted has concluded. Working with the Care Quality Commission, HM Inspectorate of Probation and HM...
View Article‘Find another way’ DoE tells failing council
Worcestershire County Council has been told to find a fresh approach to child protection services by the Department for Education. The County Council received a bottom-of-the-class “inadequate” rating...
View ArticleCafcass rated as ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted
The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service – Cafcass – has been rated ‘outstanding’ by government inspectorate Ofsted. Ofsted praised the service, which intervenes in court cases...
View ArticleAlfie Evans, court statistics, Cafcass and more
A short week in family law The parents of Alfie Evans, the 23 month-old boy who has been on ventilation in hospital after becoming seriously ill with a catastrophic and untreatable neurodegenerative...
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