Correspondence

Revised direction issued to Reading Borough Council: December 2018

A revised statutory direction issued to Reading Borough Council due to poor performance in children's social care services.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 3 December 2018
• Last updated: 15 February 2021
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  1. 15 February 2021

     Updated to show the improvement notice was lifted on 8 February 2021.

  2. 3 December 2018

     First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Revised direction issued to Reading borough council 2018

PDF, 193 KB, 3 pages

Details

This improvement notice was lifted on 8 February 2021 following a review of Reading Borough Council’s children’s social care services.

This revised direction requires the council to:

• work with Brighter Futures for Children and other partners to improve services
• continue to work with the DfE-appointed commissioner and officials

This follows:

• a 5 August 2016 Ofsted report which judged that the council’s children’s social care services were inadequate
• a subsequent process of improvement including the development of Brighter Futures for Children

This direction replaces the earlier statutory direction issued in September 2017.