Former Birmingham Children’s Trust chief executive and its current chair Andy Couldrick was appointed as commissioner by the government in March to investigate ways Tameside can turn around its ailing children’s services.
The department has been rated "inadequate" twice in the last five years by Ofsted, most recently following a visit by inspectors in December last year.
He found that “most of the characteristics of failing services that have moved into children’s trusts elsewhere are evident in Tameside”.
These are “a weak corporate and cultural context, unstable and inconsistent leadership over a protracted period, high churn in the workforce” and “a weak partnership system”.
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