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Improvement notice issued to Sefton Council: May 2021

An improvement notice issued to Sefton Council due to poor performance in children's social care services.

From:
Department for Education
Published
10 June 2021
Last updated
24 May 2022 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Improvement notice issued to Sefton council

PDF, 147 KB, 3 pages

Details

This improvement notice requires Sefton Council to take steps to improve 2 areas of its children’s social care services.

It follows an Ofsted focused visit report published on 10 May 2021 which judged there to be 2 areas for priority action:

  • timely application of the pre-proceedings stage of the Public Law Outline where risks for children are not reducing through child protection planning
  • the effectiveness of case supervision and the monitoring of children who are subject to child protection planning, including those children in the pre-proceedings process, to prevent drift and delay

A direction issued to Sefton Council on 9 May 2022 replaces this improvement notice.

Published 10 June 2021
Last updated 24 May 2022 + show all updates

  1. We have added a link to a direction issued to Sefton Council which replaces this improvement notice.

  2. First published.

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