Local authorities with high turnover levels among directors of children's services are more likely to perform badly in Ofsted child safeguarding inspections, analysis by CYP Now has found.
Data collated by CYP Now on England's 152 local authorities for the past seven years reveals that a total of 386 DCSs have been in post across the country during the period between July 2008 and July 2014 - an average of 2.5 per authority.
However, the best performing authorities in terms of Ofsted inspections have had, on average, greater stability in the top job in children's services than those deemed to be performing poorly.
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