The recommendation, put forward in December 2019 by government-appointed commissioner John Coughlan, followed an inspection of the council’s children’s services that judged them to be inadequate.
At the time, Coughlan published a report that laid bare the extent of the problems in West Sussex including criticism of the corporate culture at the council.
The Department for Education, which had appointed Coughlan six months earlier to oversee any necessary changes, endorsed his recommendation to hand over children’s services to an independent trust to avoid improvement being held “hostage” to wider problems at the council.
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