Liverpool City Council’s children’s services has been downgraded from “requires improvement to be good” following a visit by the inspectorate in March.
Ofsted’s report, which was published last month, highlights “a deterioration in the quality of practice” since Liverpool’s last children’s services inspection in May 2018.
“There has not been a systematic approach to improvement, and this has been compounded by an ineffective response to long-standing issues of recruitment and retention. The capacity issues across the service seriously impact on the ability of social workers and personal advisers (PAs) to provide the quality of support they aspire to achieve,” the report states.
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