The DfE issued an improvement notice to East Riding Council outlining the steps it needs to take to improve overall outcomes for its children’s services provision.
The order comes just months after the authority was handed the lowest rating by Ofsted following a short inspection in December 2019.
In 2018, the council was announced as one of eight new “partners in practice”, part of a government peer-support programme that saw leading children’s services departments work with other authorities to improve standards.
Two years earlier, East Riding received a "good" rating from the inspectorate but its services were downgraded after inspectors found “widespread weaknesses in practice and management oversight” for vulnerable children in need of help and protection.
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