The £1.8m contract will see Impower and HR firm Penna working with the authority to overhaul children’s services in Doncaster for the next two years.
The move comes after Education Secretary Michael Gove ordered the council to bring in outside help following an inadequate Ofsted rating and Lord Carlile’s review of its work following the Edlington case.
Under the contract, Impower will be expected to reduce Doncaster’s use of agency staff in frontline social care to less than 12 per cent within a year.
It will also have to find ways to reduce spending on looked-after children placements, interim and agency staff, and out-of-authority special needs placements.
Max Wide, a director at Impower who will lead the consultancy’s work in Doncaster, told CYP Now: “The whole contract is predicated on the idea that we are there to add to the existing improvement plan and we want to add capacity, pace and innovation to that plan.
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