Norfolk County Council said that Sara Tough, who is currently DCS at Dorset County Council will take over from interim DCS Matt Dunkley in October.
The council is currently trying to turn around standards within children's services after provision was rated "inadequate" by Ofsted for the second time in two years in October 2015.
Dunkley, a former president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services, has been in post since January. He himself replaced another former interim DCS Andrew Bunyan who was in post for two months from November 2016.
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