Correspondence

Direction issued to Norfolk County Council: August 2016

DfE direction issued in August 2016 to Norfolk council due to inadequate performance in children's social care services.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 5 August 2016
• Last updated: 19 January 2018
  Show all updates

  1. 19 January 2018

     Updated status of the now-closed direction.

  2. 5 August 2016

     First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Statutory direction to Norfolk County Council: 5 August 2016

PDF, 105 KB, 3 pages

Details

This direction was lifted on 19 January 2018.

This statutory direction required the council to co-operate with an adviser appointed by the Secretary of State for Education.

It followed the publication of:

• a report by Ofsted which judged the overall effectiveness of Norfolk’s children’s social care services as inadequate
• an independent report by Dave Hill, Norfolk Children’s Services Commissioner