In a letter to the leader of Birmingham City Council Sir Albert Bore, children’s minister Edward Timpson said the review into the struggling department will look at the council’s plans for change, whether they are sufficient, and what alternatives may be appropriate.
The review will be held instead of an inspection of progress at the authority, which had been due to be conducted by Ofsted this month.
It will be led by Julian Le Grand, who earlier this year published a report that recommended that children's services in Doncaster be split off from local authority control and instead run by an independent trust.
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