The move to boost funding for children’s services, by 18.4 per cent in its 2023/23 budget, has been backed by the council’s cabinet members at a meeting this week.
The uplift has been made amid ongoing concerns around the quality of support for children in Devon.
Children’s services in the county were rated “inadequate” by Ofsted following their last full inspection in January 2020. They found “there are serious failures in the services provided to children and young people in Devon”.
Inspectors also raised concerns about the department during their last monitoring visit in June 2022.
Ofsted said that the council had “not acted quickly enough and the pace of change remains too slow”.
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