Following an inspection of children's services at Buckinghamshire Council, from 6 to 17 December - the council's first full inspection since becoming a unitary authority in 2020 - the inspectorate said that while services were no longer "inadequate", further improvements are needed for it to be rated as "good".
Opportunities for children’s services in Buckinghamshire to improve had been limited by the “depth and extent of poor social work practice" dating back to a previous inspection in 2017 combined with “acute and persistent” difficulties recruiting and retaining social workers and frontline managers".
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