A report by leadership body The Staff College highlights that the DCS is a “critical leadership role” for a council yet is one of the hardest chief officer positions to fill and retain, with an average tenure of just three years.
The college, which consulted more than 100 current and former DCSs for the report, concluded that a range of factors are to blame for the high churn in children’s leadership positions.
DCSs pointed to disjointed communications across central government departments as resulting in a “lack of coherent policy focus for children” which in turn increases workload.
One DCS said: “There is no home for children in government at present…it is spread across several departments.”
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