Responsibility for running children's social care services at England's largest local authority is to be transferred to an independent trust from April.
Birmingham Children's Trust is a community interest company wholly owned by Birmingham City Council. It will employ more than 2,000 staff and have responsibility for an annual budget of £190m.
Andy Couldrick, former director of children's services (DCS) and chief executive at Wokingham Borough Council and DCS in Oxfordshire, joined the shadow trust last summer as chief executive.
He is charged with turning around the children's social care department, which has been rated "inadequate" by Ofsted since 2009.
The council's decision in May 2016 to create the trust followed the high-profile deaths of children, including two-year-old Keanu Williams and seven-year-old Khyra Ishaq.
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