The reallocation of those duties to a not-for-profit independent trust by April 2014, as recommended by Professor Julian Le Grand's report, will hopefully lead to a transformation in the service and a body of learning for the rest of the country.
Doncaster is a special case. It is notorious for the Edlington brothers who tortured two young boys; its high number of child deaths as a result of abuse and neglect; and a series of inadequate inspection judgments over many years. The Le Grand report identified a "culture of failure and disillusion that pervades the service and that serves to obstruct every attempt at reform".
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