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DfE issues improvement notice to Solihull Council

1 min read Social Care
Solihull Council has been issued with an improvement notice by the Department for Education.
Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was killed in June 2020. Picture: West Midlands Police
Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was killed in June 2020. Picture: West Midlands Police

The notice gives the council, which was criticised over the safeguarding of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes before his death, a year to improve its children’s social care functions.

Its publication “follows serious practice concerns and evidence of unassessed and unknown risk” identified in a recent joint area child protection inspection by Ofsted, HMI Probation, the Care Quality Commission and HMI Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services.

The improvement notice calls on the council to address “serious concerns in respect of fragility of the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) and insufficient social worker capacity in the council to deal effectively with presenting need”. 

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