The £145,000-a-year job of improving Birmingham’s troubled children’s services is being handed to the head of an ‘outstanding’ department in Lincolnshire, it has been announced.Read
Promises of radical change have been common currency during the past decade, but despite the constant departure and arrival of chief officers and senior managers all promising to make a difference, the standard of care for vulnerable children in Birmingham is still officially classified as failing.Read
It will take at least a year to bring Birmingham’s failing children’s social services up to scratch, the woman hired to rescue the under-performing unit has admitted.Read
Experts appointed to turn around the city’s failing children’s social services are becoming increasingly frustrated at the grindingly slow pace of progress, writes Public Affairs Correspondent Paul DaleRead
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