It has been a turbulent year for everyone in children’s services, but that is especially so for East Riding Council. A visit by Ofsted inspectors in late 2019 saw the children’s services department turn from being a beacon of good practice to one judged “inadequate” in March.
The council, which covers an area of east Yorkshire that includes rural market towns in the north of the county, the seaside resorts of Bridlington on the east coast, and industrial areas along the Humber estuary, is Conservative controlled, has pockets of deprivation and a child population that is shrinking (see graphics).
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