When it launched its children’s social care reform programme nearly five years ago, the Department for Education expressed an ambition that a third of councils should be in the process of handing responsibility for services to a children’s trust, or had completed the process, by 2020.
The launch of Northamptonshire Children’s Trust in November marked the 11th local authority to establish an alternative delivery model (ADM) for children’s services, while more are in the planning stage.
There is a myriad of factors for the creation of trusts not reaching the levels anticipated by the DfE in 2016. There has been a reduction in the proportion of children’s services departments rated “inadequate” by Ofsted – from 22 per cent in 2016 to 13 per cent now, which coincided with the introduction of the new ILACS inspection framework in 2018.
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